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Show Course description, evaluation combined in one publication their money is well spent, suggestions are welcome. The committee is also gaining extra amounts by selling their evaluation evalua-tion services to the general education educa-tion and honors programs, the physics department, the Latter-day Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion, and the educational television program. pro-gram. The committee's budget for this school year is $10,000. An experimental Course Evaluation Evalua-tion Booklet will be for sale at the bookstore on February 9. The booklet is a joint effort by Bob Irigebretsen, chairman of course i evaluation, and Barbara Croft, editor of the course description booklet. It will include the course evaluations and descriptions in the same booklet. The first 350 pages will be course evaluation based on the cards returned re-turned by students for the fall quarter. One major difference in this section is that the minimum return for reporting a class will be lowered from 80 percent to 70 percent per-cent of the student enrollment. This was due to the loss of 10 percent per-cent of the course evaluation cards by a technical error at the computer com-puter center. These cards were not sent until late in the quarter. Cards were sent for 1400 classes. Ingebretsen epects from 900 to 1000 of these classes to meet the 70 percent minimum. Of the 43,000 cards sent originally 74 percent were returned. The usual number of cards returned is only 77 percent, per-cent, therefore a equitable number of classes will be reported on.. Ingebretsen stressed the fact that information on how to use the booklet is printed on the back cover. "It is very important that all students know what the figures and charts in the book actually mean," he said. The course descriptions for the spring quarter will take up last 200 pages of the book. "By using the two sections of the book, students stu-dents will be also to compare what former students thought of classes with the instructors' intended in-tended objectives," Ingebretsen said. He hopes this will best achieve the booklet's goal of providing pro-viding students with the best available avail-able information while providing useful faculty feedback. The booklet will sell for 75 cents unless finances show that 50 cents a booklet can be charged without going over the Evaluation Commit tee's budget. The actual cost of printing is about $3 a booklet, but the committee feels they can' sustain sus-tain the loss since their budget is from student funds and the students stu-dents are the only ones who will benefit from such a booklet. Faculty members will receive the information pertenent to them before be-fore the booklet is published. The committee feels that because be-cause of the large response to the class cards that the students feel |