Last Modified: 12/30/2013

Initial Report

Last Modified: 12/30/2013

1. Do you think that the “supervisory chain” (i.e. Department Chair, Dean, Provost, and President) should be allowed to see student comments for each faculty member being reviewed for retention, promotion, tenure, and post-tenure review?

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / Yes /
/ 12 / 100%
2 / No /
/ 0 / 0%
Total / 12 / 100%
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 1
Mean / 1.00
Variance / 0.00
Standard Deviation / 0.00
Total Responses / 12

2. For what purpose should the supervisory chain use comments? (Select all that apply)

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / a. Formative Evaluation /
/ 11 / 92%
2 / b. Summative Evaluation /
/ 7 / 58%
3 / c. Other (open ended comment field) /
/ 1 / 8%
c. Other (open ended comment field)
Only for the given eval period, not archived.
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 3
Total Responses / 12

3. Who should be able to see the comments? (Select all that apply)

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / a. Faculty member /
/ 0 / 0%
2 / b. Department Chair /
/ 0 / 0%
3 / c. Other (open ended comment field) /
/ 0 / 0%
c. Other (open ended comment field)
Statistic / Value
Min Value / -
Max Value / -
Total Responses / 0

4. Do you think that department committees should be allowed to see student comments for each faculty member being reviewed for retention, promotion, tenure, and post-tenure review?

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / Yes /
/ 7 / 58%
2 / No /
/ 5 / 42%
Total / 12 / 100%
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 2
Mean / 1.42
Variance / 0.27
Standard Deviation / 0.51
Total Responses / 12

5. For what purpose, should the departmental committees use comments? (Check all that apply)

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / a. Formative Evaluation /
/ 6 / 86%
2 / b. Summative Evaluation /
/ 6 / 86%
3 / c. Other (open ended comment field) /
/ 0 / 0%
c. Other (open ended comment field)
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 2
Total Responses / 7

6. Do you think the SRI Task Force should recommend guidelines as to how to use the comments?

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / Yes for the Professional Handbook /
/ 9 / 75%
2 / No this should be left to Departmental guidelines /
/ 3 / 25%
Total / 12 / 100%
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 2
Mean / 1.25
Variance / 0.20
Standard Deviation / 0.45
Total Responses / 12

7. For what areas should the SRI Task Force recommend guidelines for the Professional Handbook? (Select all that apply)

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / a. Guidelines on evaluating student comments on race, ethnicity, gender, non-English accent, foreign ancestry, other (open ended comments for this section enabled) /
/ 8 / 89%
2 / b. Guidelines on evaluating student comments’ weight or importance by each level of review,--(open ended comments for this section enabled) /
/ 7 / 78%
a. Guidelines on evaluating student comments on race, ethnicity, gender, non-English accent, foreign ancestry, other (open ended comments for this section enabled) / b. Guidelines on evaluating student comments’ weight or importance by each level of review,--(open ended comments for this section enabled)
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 2
Total Responses / 9

8. For what period of time should the comments be available in a portfolio for each purpose (retention, etc)?

# / Answer /
/ Response / %
1 / a. Until the review is completed for that purpose (retention, etc.) only /
/ 6 / 50%
2 / b. Permanently /
/ 4 / 33%
3 / c. Some other time period (open ended comment field enabled) /
/ 2 / 17%
Total / 12 / 100%
c. Some other time period (open ended comment field enabled)
For each year until a terminal review year (. Ie years 1-5 but not 6). If there are formative issues in the cooments those should be in the prior letters
I do not think they should be part of portfolio review at all
Statistic / Value
Min Value / 1
Max Value / 3
Mean / 1.67
Variance / 0.61
Standard Deviation / 0.78
Total Responses / 12