<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Our department, Chem & Biochem, does not have a minimum cut off point but of course we will follow the lead from Arts & Sciences.<div><br></div><div>Regardless using paper or electronic, if there's 5 students in a class and you get 5 eval results, the prof knows exactly who gave an eval...if there's 4 evals returned, you have a good guess. One disadvantage of paper that a student pointed out to us is that, having distinctive handwriting (that the prof knew from class assignments) their eval was a dead giveaway. I told the student to print rather than write cursive...or change up their handwriting and they were okay with that solution.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you do for tenure-track faculty with low enrollment and it's maybe a key class they WANT evals for? </div><div><br></div><div>Carolyn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Ostermann, Shawn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>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.<br><br>Shawn<br><br>On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Alost, Stan wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Shawn<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:20 PM, "Ostermann, Shawn" <<a href="mailto:osterman@ohio.edu">osterman@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Classclimate users,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Replies back to the list, please...<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Shawn<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Begin forwarded message:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: "Beam, Jay" <<a href="mailto:beam@ohio.edu">beam@ohio.edu</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Class Climate rules<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Date: June 15, 2012 11:40:21 AM EDT<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To: "Ostermann, Shawn" <<a href="mailto:osterman@ohio.edu">osterman@ohio.edu</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Shawn,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Jay<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Dr. Shawn Ostermann - Ohio University<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Planning in the Russ College<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 153 Stocker Center, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:ostermann@ohio.edu">ostermann@ohio.edu</a> -- FAX: (740)593-0659 -- Voice: (740)593-1482<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><signature.asc><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Classclimate-users mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu">Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/classclimate-users">http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/classclimate-users</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Classclimate-users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu">Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/classclimate-users">http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/classclimate-users</a><br></blockquote><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Dr. Shawn Ostermann - Ohio University<br>Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Planning in the Russ College<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 153 Stocker Center, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979<br> <a href="mailto:ostermann@ohio.edu">ostermann@ohio.edu</a> -- FAX: (740)593-0659 -- Voice: (740)593-1482<br><br><span><signature.asc></span>_______________________________________________<br>Classclimate-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu">Classclimate-users@listserv.ohio.edu</a><br>http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/classclimate-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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