« back to article

Discuss “New FCEs yield mixed student results”

Recent changes to the Faculty Course Evaluation (FCE) process have dramatically changed its purpose and design. The new FCEs are designed to provide better input than the previous edition. As in prior versions, these evaluations are voluntary. A major change, however, is students? new opportunity to fill out the FCEs online.

Response rates, initially a concern, did not appear to differ from the pre-change rates at first. Data is available from two pilot studies and two summer sessions. The online version records a 46.5 percent response rate, while the old pencil-and-paper method had a 52 percent response rate.

As pointed out by the FCE website, the pencil-and-paper method had huge swings in response rates from class to class. The response...

Comments

Be heard

Name:
Required
Email:
Optional
Comment:

Comment guidelines

If you provide an email address, it will be displayed. This may make you more vulnerable to spammers.

HTML is not allowed. Paragraphs are automatically created by leaving a blank line. Links are created from URLs automatically.

Off-topic or inappropriate (e.g. obscene, libelous) comments are not permitted and will be removed.

Important: The Tartan provides these discussion boards to encourage discussion about the topics we report. The views and opinions expressed in these comments are those of their authors, and do not reflect the opinions of The Tartan.