May 18-19, 2000
ITEM 107-110-R0500 -��� Proposed Policy on Student Evaluation of Faculty Teaching�����
SUBJECT:
PERSONNEL
Policy 705.3 - Performance evaluation; faculty
Board policy:
1.� ������ Evaluation
of the performance of all personnel involved in direct instruction within� the Montana University System shall be
conducted regularly and shall include student evaluation of teaching in
accordance with these procedures.
2.�������� Student evaluation of
teaching is an important component of faculty performance review and should be
taken into account in appointment (where practical and reliable),
reappointment, tenure, promotion and post-tenure reviews at the department,
college and university level.
Procedures:
1.�������� Each campus shall establish a regular
cycle of student evaluation of teaching and use the results of these
evaluations in faculty performance evaluations for reappointment, tenure,
promotion and, where applicable, post-tenure review.
2.� ������ For student evaluation of teaching, the following guidelines
shall be observed:
a.� There should be some
student evaluation of each faculty member's teaching� every year he or she is engaged in instruction.
b. When surveys or other instruments are used to
collect student input on teaching, these must be administered and collected
from the students by someone other than the faculty member under review.
c. The results of student evaluations of teaching
should be shared with the faculty member only after final grades for the
course(s) evaluated have been submitted for posting by the registrar.
3.�������� The
administrator or designated evaluation committee of a faculty member's academic
department or division will meet with him or her to review his/her student
evaluations in the context of other evaluations of teaching.�
a.�� At this
meeting, the reviewer(s) will indicate any specific issues that need to be
addressed with respect to improvement of teaching in the next review period.
b.� As
appropriate, the reviewer (s) will offer the faculty member such professional
development assistance as resources permit and the two deem helpful or
necessary.
c.� Copies of
the student evaluations or a summary shall be retained in the faculty member's
personnel file or other appropriate file and used in department, school/college
and/or university performance reviews for no more than seven years.