Course Evaluations at PUC
What Makes IDEA Unique?
1. Focus on Student Learning
2. Focus on Instructor’s
Purpose
3. Adjustments for Extraneous
Influences
4. Validity and Reliability
Wouter de Bruijn
5. Comparison Data
6. Flexibility
IDEA Course Evaluation Options
Instruments
Items (est.) Application
Diagnostic Feedback 2.0 40 items
Comprehensive assessment of
overall teaching effectiveness
Learning Outcomes 2.0
19 items
Best for courses where
outcomes rather than teaching
methods are the focus, such as
clinical, practicum, and lab
Teaching Essentials
12 items
Provides a screening of
fundamentals of teaching for
quick review of faculty
performance
Course Evaluation Process
 Instrument selection
 Complete Faculty Information Form (FIF) (for diagnostic
instrument only) and add extra questions
 Survey available to students
 Students receive email
 Post link in Blackboard
 Communicate with students in class
 If possible, give students time to complete in class
Course Evaluation Process
 Instrument selection
 Complete Faculty Information Form (FIF) (for diagnostic
instrument only) and add extra questions
 Survey available to students
 Check response rates in real-time
 View evaluation results online
 Available 24 hours after final grades are due
 Interactive report
Diagnostic Report Overview
Formative Feedback
What can I do differently?
Best Practices – Response Rates
 Create value for students
 Let them know their input is valuable and actually used to
make changes
 Utilize in-class capture
 Take 20 min of class time to administer survey
 Mobile administration makes this easier
Mobile delivery to students
 Easier to use
captive audience
(in-class
administration)
Best Practices – Response Rates
 Create value for students
 Let them know their input is valuable and actually used to
make changes
 Utilize in-class capture
 Take 20 min of class time to administer survey
 Mobile administration makes this easier
 Monitor and communicate
 Use real-time reports of response rates & communicate that
back to students
Real-time response rates
 Communicate
response rates
back to students
Getting help…
 http://webs.purduecal.edu/acadaffrs/idea/
 Technical/Administrative questions
 Contact course_evaluations@purduecal.edu
 Pedagogical/Instructional questions
 Contact Emily Hixon, Assoc. Prof of Education and trained
IDEA consultant
 hixone@purduecal.edu