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Show showing it off Evaluations made public By TIM ST. CLAIR Chronicle Staff (enJ. e results of previously ( v0 .released course evaluation in mmir'.! College of Business will be de available to students next ek. Gary Bromley, chairman of fod:. Student Advisory Committee, sa)Kd the information will be be abolished and made available to enls "dents for the first time. ! course evaluation book rates 1 j :h professor in the College lege of Business according to m questionnaire distributed to e ' dents during fall quarter. Two ted r.iies of the book will be in the !27 liness Library and another will I on reserve in the Marriott rary. a i Bromley stated that course jl luation had always taken :e in the College of Business spendently of and in addition the University-wide course BtoMuation program. The I Df luation is used in con-I con-I Coloration of promotions, tenure oik retention. However, the ilts of the studies were given ii to the Dean of the College, rtA jh department chairman and jw professor involved. itoria! iase of the results" was at-Chroni; at-Chroni; pted last year but failed. The ngj.roval of the dean of the jLimi.ege and the Faculty Council form-' needed to allow students to the information. Mr. Bromley StuJ- manv f the facultV members - , such information was con- nim fidential and should not be made accessible to students. In order to gain the approval of the College of Business faculty the course evaluation had to be improved. The Student Advisory Committee expanded the questionnaire to 31 questions and based it on evaluation forms used across the nation. The revised evaluation met with enough support in the faculty to okay it. However, according to Mr. Bromley, approximately 20 percent of the faculty of the College of Business are still against making the evaluation results public. There are three sections in the evaluation. One covers the course, the second covers exams and the third examines the professor himself. Each question has a number-rating scale from one to seven. The course evaluation book shows the average response to each question and how each professor and course compare to the overall college average for the particular question. The professor can see where he is lacking. He can see if students feel his tests are fair, his text books adequate and his office hours convenient among other things. The co,urse evaluation book covers courses only at the undergraduate un-dergraduate level. No MBA classes are included in the survey. |