[Classclimate-users] Class Climate rules

Wed Jul 11 10:51:16 EDT 2012

For historical reasons, engineering has never done class evaluations for summer courses.  I suspect that it was a workload issue in that it was an awful lot of people time to set it up in the olden days.  

If the auto loading stuff works well, I suspect that Engineering would consider doing summer class evaluations NEXT summer.

Shawn

On Jul 11, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Grenert, Joseph wrote:

> This works for me.
> 
> Does anyone do summer class evals besides us? I'm wondering who's setting things up for summer classes.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: classclimate-users-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:classclimate-users-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] On Behalf Of Ostermann, Shawn
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> I just talked to Jay on the phone.  Recommendations from people seemed to be "3,4, and 5".  As a compromise, Jay and I decided to use 4 as the cutoff.
> 
> What this means is that classes (or portions of dual-level and yoked classes) with fewer than 4 students in them will not be loaded into the class climate system automatically by OIT.
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> Shawn
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> On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Beam, Jay wrote:
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>> Do we have an answer on this?
>> 
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>> Ostermann, Shawn
>> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:11 AM
>> To: Users of the Scantron ClassClimate survey tool
>> Subject: Re: [Classclimate-users] Class Climate rules
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>> 
>> IS there a minimum number?  I've never seen one in university policy.  I suspect that the colleges and departments may have guidelines for that, but I don't know of a university policy.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> 
>> On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Alost, Stan wrote:
>> 
>>> Shawn
>>> Why not standardize on the minimum enrollment numbers required for an undergraduate and a graduate course? If a class is allowed to continue despite low enrollment, then evaluation can be handled on paper.
>>> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:20 PM, "Ostermann, Shawn" <osterman at ohio.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Classclimate users,
>>>> 
>>>> In reference to Jay's note below, I'd like to know what other people think.  One unique problem with electronic surveys is that the smaller the sample set, the greater the risk that the results will not be very anonymous.  Either because there are only 2 or 3 people in the class total or only one or 2 people will fill it out and the instructor will know who they were from reminding people in class, etc.  Because of that, our college has always omitted tiny classes.  Right now, our cutoff is a minimum of 4 students, below that we don't do the survey.
>>>> 
>>>> What do other people think?  Could we come to an agreement on a minimum and have OIT take care of it for us all?  The alternative is that each college/department would have to remove the small classes from the data load by hand.
>>>> 
>>>> Replies back to the list, please...
>>>> 
>>>> Shawn
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>>> From: "Beam, Jay" <beam at ohio.edu>
>>>>> Subject: Class Climate rules
>>>>> Date: June 15, 2012 11:40:21 AM EDT
>>>>> To: "Ostermann, Shawn" <osterman at ohio.edu>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Shawn,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We met yesterday regarding class climate loads.  One of the issues we discussed was brought to our attention by Jill Bateman.  She indicated that the College of Engineering does not want classes with less than four students to be loaded.  While we can do that, we have to do it campus wide.  Therefore, I am asking if you could get agreement on this.  Whatever the minimum enrollment number is, it will be for everybody, so if everybody agrees on it we will put it in.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jay
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