To all:

At YSU non-tenured faculty are evaluated by students each term, for each 
course they teach.  Tenured faculty are evaluated for either Fall or 
Spring, depending on where they fall in an alphabetic schedule.  Student 
fill out paper & pencil evaluations that allow for ratings and comments 
regarding the course and the instructor.  Numerical information 
extracted by a scanner is summarized and provided to the instructors, 
the chairs and the deans.  Written comments are sent to the chairs for 
review, and then passed on to the faculty members.  As the comments are 
hand written, they are not passed on to the faculty members until after 
the term has ended.  However, as students may have the same instructor 
for multiple courses there is some sensitivity among students regarding 
the transmittal of hand written comments, given that handwriting may be 
recognized.  Thus, many students do not write comments.

Currently, the process is administered by HR.  However, there is an 
active plan to move the process to IR to allow for more detailed 
analysis of the results.

Gordon


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Gordon E. Mapley, Ph.D.
Youngstown State University

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