Notes on the Faculty Evaluation Survey Report

General Note: Confidentiality of Individual Student Responses

Effective with reports for Fall 2006 evaluations: in order to ensure that individual responses remain confidential, no N-counts or response distributions will be reported for any course section with fewer than five student responses to the survey. That is, means will be reported for items 1-3, but no other information about responses will be reported. In the "Respondents (N)" field on the report, "< 5" is noted.

Heading Information

Left: Instructor's Name, Instructor's UCA ID, Department,* College

* The "department" field is intended to indicate the department (or non-departmental program—e.g., the MBA program or the Intensive English Program) where the teaching occurred.

Right: Course Sequence Number, Subject Prefix,* Course Number, Number of Respondents

* The "prefix" field is generally based on the course information sheet provided by the department or college; for that reason, it may or may not reflect the actual subject prefix for the course.

Report Body

The body of the report is in two parts:

(1) In the left column is the score report. The distribution of responses is shown for all items. In addition, the instructor's mean scores are shown for items 1–3. To make calculation of mean scores possible, the following values are assigned: A = 5, B = 4, C = 3, D = 2, E = 1.

(2) In the right column, the instructor's mean scores for items 1–3 are plotted in relation to the following information about the mean scores on these items of courses in the college or department:

• Min (lowest score in the context group)
• Q1 (25th percentile: the point at which 25% of the scores in the context group are lower, 75% higher)
• Med (median, 50th percentile, Q2: the point at which half the scores in the context group are lower, half higher)
• Q3 (75th percentile: the point at which 75% of the scores in the context group are lower, 25% higher)
• Max (highest score in the context group)

For each course, comparison is made only with courses from the same level (lower division, upper division, graduate). Note that if a context group (department or college) contains fewer than five courses at a particular level, full contextual information for that group at that level is not plotted.

Use this link to view or print a sample report (in Acrobat PD format) with explanatory markup: report link.