Student Course/Instructor Evaluations. The Vice-President (Academic) may develop, administer, and use student course/instructor evaluation forms, following Consultation in Committee with the faculty. Such evaluation forms shall be designed, in part, for the purpose of obtaining fair and reasonable assessments of the quality of teaching. The Faculty Association and the University agree that student course /instructor evaluations do not constitute unequivocal measures of teaching effectiveness and may only be used as part of a more comprehensive teaching evaluation system which may include other measures of student impact, peer evaluation, and reflective thought from the member. Such system, if developed, shall be created in consultation with the academic staff members of the appropriate academic unit and included in the area criteria documents. When the information from student course/instructor evaluations is used, it will be in an aggregated or summarized form. Anonymous student comments gathered in the course/instructor evaluation process shall not be included in the aggregated or summarized forms. It is the member’s choice to provide students’ comments, but if they choose to do so, they must provide the complete set of students’ comments from the course. An academic staff member who does not wish to use the form that is in current use may make a written proposal to the Vice-President (Academic) suggesting an alternative method of student course/instructor evaluation. An academic staff member who does not wish to use the form that is in current use may make a written proposal to the Vice-President (Academic) suggesting an alternative method of student course/instructor evaluation.
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Student Course/Instructor Evaluations. The Vice-President (Academic) may develop, administer, and use student course/instructor evaluation forms, following Consultation in Committee with the faculty. Such evaluation forms shall be designed, in part, for the purpose of obtaining fair and reasonable assessments of the quality of teaching. The Faculty Association and the University agree that student course /instructor evaluations do not constitute unequivocal measures of teaching effectiveness and may only be used as part of a more comprehensive teaching evaluation system which may include other measures of student impact, peer evaluation, and reflective thought from the member. Such system, if developed, shall be created in consultation with the academic staff members of the appropriate academic unit and included in the area criteria documents. When the information from student course/instructor evaluations is used, it will be in an aggregated or summarized form. Anonymous student comments gathered in the course/instructor evaluation process shall not be included in the aggregated or summarized forms. It is the member’s choice to provide students’ comments, but if they choose to do so, they must provide the complete set of students’ comments from the course. An academic staff member who does not wish to use the form that is in current use may make a written proposal to the Vice-President (Academic) suggesting an alternative method of student course/instructor evaluation. An academic staff member who does not wish to use the form that is in current use may make a written proposal to the Vice-President (Academic) suggesting an alternative method of student course/instructor evaluation.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
