coe-staff: UO to revise teaching evaluations - Reducing biases and improving validity

[Krista Chronister]

Dear College students, faculty, and staff:

The Provost’s Office is working to revise teaching evaluations (please see more detailed message below).  The work began in spring 2017 when a motion was brought to the Senate by faculty who were concerned about course evaluation ratings. The result was the creation of a Teaching Evaluation Senate Task Force charged with “evaluating and improving course evaluations and peer (faculty) reviews with respect to reducing biases and improving validity, with the goal of improving teaching, learning, and equity”.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to a series of Town Hall meetings to hear more about the Task Force’s work and how our campus will proceed.

Town Halls
The UO community is invited to attend town hall sessions to learn more about the work of the task force, and to provide input on this process:
May 1 – Town Hall for undergraduate students, 6 – 7 p.m., EMU Redwood Auditorium
May 2 – Town Hall for unit heads, staff, and managers 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., EMU Redwood Auditorium
May 2 – Town Hall for graduate students, 10 – 11 a.m., EMU Redwood Auditorium
May 3 – Town Hall for faculty, 10 – 11 a.m., Ford Alumni Center Ballroom
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Krista M. Chronister, Ph.D.
Professor of Counseling Psychology
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Equity

College of Education | HEDCO 130
1215 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97403
(p) 541.346.2415 | (f) 541.346.6778

https://education.uoregon.edu/users/chronister
www.access-dv.org<http://www.access-dv.org/>

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From: Sierra Dawson
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 11:14 AM
To: Provost Assistant <provasst at uoregon.edu>; Karen Ford <fordk at uoregon.edu>; (W.) Andrew Marcus <marcus at uoregon.edu>; Christoph Lindner <cpl at uoregon.edu>; Randy Kamphaus <randyk at uoregon.edu>; Adriene Lim <alim at uoregon.edu>; Sarah Nutter <snutter at uoregon.edu>; Juan-Carlos Molleda <jmolleda at uoregon.edu>; Marcilynn Burke <maburke at uoregon.edu>; Brad Foley <bfoley at uoregon.edu>; Assistant, Associate, and Divisional Deans <JWJ.DL.ASDeans at uoregon.edu>
Cc: Pamela Palanuk <palanuk at uoregon.edu>; Lisa Mick Shimizu <lisa at uoregon.edu>; Jay Ferris <jferris at uoregon.edu>; Maggie Bosworth <magboz at uoregon.edu>; Shelley Harshe <sharshe at uoregon.edu>; Michele Civiello <civiello at uoregon.edu>; Laura Bottem <lbottem at uoregon.edu>; Lillian Lorenzen <lillian at uoregon.edu>; Anne Merydith <merydith at uoregon.edu>; Senate President <senatepres at uoregon.edu>; Senate Vice President <senatevp at uoregon.edu>; OTP All-Staff <JWJ.DL.OPAA-All-Staff at uoregon.edu>; Tobin Klinger <tklinger at uoregon.edu>
Subject: teaching evaluation

Dear Colleagues,
As you know, the Senate Task Force on Teaching Evaluation has been hard at work for the last year investigating better tools for the continuous improvement and evaluation of teaching. We will be launching the public face of our efforts via a webpage hosted on the Office of the Provost’s site<https://provost.uoregon.edu/revising-teaching-evaluations>, and an Around the O story to be published today and included in Tuesday’s Workplace email.
The webpage highlights the goals of the project, the work done to date, the plan for continued pilot testing and iteration, and how we envision changes be phased in over time. We will continue to use this page as a resource to provide up to date information about the project.
The Office of the Provost and the task force will be holding four town hall meetings May 1-3 for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and unit heads to learn more and to provide feedback.
If you have any questions, I am happy to address them, and to bring them to the task force for discussion.
Cheers,
Sierra
For scheduling, please contact Pam Joslin at provasst at uoregon.edu<mailto:provasst at uoregon.edu>  | 541-346-3861
Sierra Dawson PhD | Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
sdawson at uoregon.edu<mailto:sdawson at uoregon.edu> | 541-346-6836
10A Johnson Hall
1258 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97403



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