Common use of Teaching Evaluations Clause in Contracts

Teaching Evaluations. 2.1 A student questionnaire shall be administered in such a way as to afford all students in a given course or class a reasonable chance to respond. The questionnaire shall contain a series of questions that will be answered on a computerized answer key and rated on a standardized scale. The questionnaire will comprise approximately 20 core questions plus any optional questions, selected from an approved list, added by the employee being evaluated. The format of the questionnaire, the core questions, and the list of optional questions shall be mutually agreed to by the parties and shall not subsequently be changed without the mutual agreement of both parties. 2.2 With each questionnaire a separate sheet of paper shall be provided for students to make written comments in response any open-ended questions approved by the parties. These comments shall be returned unexamined to the employee being evaluated in accordance with 2.5. 2.3 Where possible, student questionnaires shall be conducted in one semester of the academic year for each faculty member in every course with an enrolment of five (5) or more students. 2.4 The student questionnaire shall be administered by clerical staff under the direction of the Xxxx or Director. The scheduling of the student questionnaire shall be by the mutual agreement of the employee and the Xxxx or Director. The employee shall not be present while questionnaires are being filled out. Employees shall not receive any information that would disclose the identity of students who completed the questionnaire. 2.5 After questionnaires have been completed, the written comments shall be placed in a sealed envelope, which shall be held in the office of the Xxxx or Director and provided to the employee being evaluated, unopened, after the final date for grade appeals has elapsed.

Teaching Evaluations. 2.1 A student questionnaire shall be administered in such a way as to afford all students in a given course or class a reasonable chance to respond. The questionnaire shall contain a series of questions that will be answered on a computerized answer key and rated on a standardized scale. The questionnaire will comprise approximately 20 core questions plus any optional questions, selected from an approved list, added by the employee being evaluated. The format of the questionnaire, the core questions, and the list of optional questions shall be mutually agreed to by the parties and shall not subsequently be changed without the mutual agreement of both parties. 2.2 With each questionnaire a separate sheet of paper shall be provided for students to make written comments in response any open-ended questions approved by the parties. These comments shall be returned unexamined to the employee being evaluated in accordance with 2.5. 2.3 Where possible, student questionnaires shall be conducted in one semester of the academic year for each faculty member in every course with an enrolment of five (5) or more students. 2.4 The student questionnaire shall be administered by clerical staff under the direction of the Xxxx or Director. The scheduling of the student questionnaire shall be by the mutual agreement of the employee and the Xxxx or Director. The employee shall not be present while questionnaires are being filled out. Employees shall not receive any information that would disclose the identity of students who completed the questionnaire. 2.5 After questionnaires have been completed, the written comments shall be placed in a sealed envelope, which shall be held in the office of the Xxxx or Director and provided to the employee being evaluated, unopened, after the final date for grade appeals has elapsed. 2.6 OC shall be responsible for providing the employee being evaluated with a confidential statistical summary of student responses after the final date for grade appeals has elapsed. 2.7 The statistical summary of student responses, and any response by the employee, shall be part of the employee’s official personnel file. 2.8 Data and statistical measures derived from student questionnaires which conform to the provisions of clause 2.3, and which have been placed in the employee’s official personnel file, can be used in the assessment of an employee’s teaching performance and for the purposes of consideration of completion of the employee’s probationary period. Any materials which are relevant in assessment of teaching and which have been placed in the official personnel file can be used in the assessment of teaching performance. 2.9 In using the statistical summary of student responses the employee’s designated supervisor or designate shall consider any relevant factor, including but not limited to, course prerequisites, whether the course is elective or required, introductory or advanced, whether it is being taught for the first time, the facilities available given the requirements of the course, the subject matter, and other relevant issues. LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING #2 PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT‌‌ 1. OC and OCFA agree that prior learning assessment work undertaken by a member of OCFA is to be integrated into, and form part of, a college professor’s workload as defined in this Agreement. 2. OC will remunerate PLA work done by current employees based on the number of assigned real hours required to perform those assessments. The rate of payment shall be determined by the following formula: where S is the annual salary. 3. Before any PLA assessment work is undertaken in a department the chair of the department, a representative of the Association, and the designated supervisor shall meet to determine the types of PLA assessment that might be undertaken in that department, and the number of real hours required for assessments of various types within that department. Once all three parties have agreed on how many real hours will be assigned for assessments of various types all assessments of a given type in that department shall be remunerated on the basis of the agreed upon number of hours. The agreement will remain in force for one year and can be renewed only with the mutual agreement of all three parties. 4. Continuing employees in the department shall have a first right, on a seniority basis, for PLA work. 5. The parties agree that it is the responsibility of employees not to perform PLA work without first having acquired a sufficiently high level of subject matter expertise to perform the assessment adequately. 6. An employee whose previous teaching and research experience has not sufficiently prepared him or her for a specific PLA assignment that he or she has voluntarily accepted is expected to develop, without additional compensation or release time, and in a timely fashion, the relevant subject matter expertise prior to undertaking the work. 7. If no employee voluntarily accepts a PLA assignment the work may be assigned to a continuing employee by the designated supervisor, in consultation with the department chair. 8. An employee whose previous teaching and research experience has not sufficiently prepared him or her for a specific PLA assignment that he or she has been assigned is entitled to develop the relevant subject matter expertise prior to undertaking the work. OC shall provide the faculty member with sufficient release time in order to develop the relevant subject matter expertise. The amount of release time shall be mutually agreed 9. An employee assigned PLA responsibilities is entitled to training in the methodology and application of prior learning assessment, if necessary. The employer shall provide necessary release time from other duties to undertake such training, and pay all expenses incurred.

Teaching Evaluations. 2.1 A Teaching evaluations shall be obtained through a student questionnaire shall be administered in such a way as to afford all students in a given course or class a reasonable chance to respond. The questionnaire shall contain a series of questions that will be answered on a computerized answer key and rated on a standardized scale. The questionnaire will comprise approximately 20 core questions plus any optional questions, selected from an approved list, added by the employee being evaluated. The format of the questionnaire, the core questions, and the list of optional questions shall be mutually agreed to by the parties and shall not subsequently be changed without the mutual agreement of both parties. 2.2 With each questionnaire a separate sheet of paper shall be provided for students to make written comments in response any open-ended questions approved by the parties. These comments shall be returned unexamined to the employee being evaluated in accordance with 2.5. 2.3 Where possibleAlthough logistics and resources may not permit, student questionnaires the goal of this policy is that teaching evaluations shall be conducted in one each semester of the academic year for each faculty member in every course with an enrolment of five (5) or more students. 2.4 The student questionnaire shall be administered by clerical staff under the direction of the Xxxx or Director. The scheduling of the student questionnaire shall be by the mutual agreement of the employee and the Xxxx or Director. The employee shall not be present while questionnaires are being filled out. Employees shall not receive any information that would disclose the identity of students who completed the questionnaire. 2.5 After questionnaires have been completed, the written comments shall be placed in a sealed envelope, which shall be held in the office of the Xxxx or Director and provided to the employee being evaluated, unopened, after the final date for grade appeals has elapsed.