Feedback will allow departmental queries
Feedback, the curriculum and instruction survey, will be administered this semester with an option for departments to add their courses. The department might direct of Instructional Resources.
McKnight said he hoped more instructors would use the survey this semester.
McKnight said yesterday that use of the survey had been down, having about 40 per cent of instructors using Feedback last year with about 50 per cent two years $_{12}$.
McKnight gave several reasons for the decrease in survey use. Instructors might think that Feedback doesn't include the right information, he said, or that the results give no new information. He said that students got tired of filling out the survey and that they don't give reliable information.
The biggest criticisms of the survey by students, he said, are that the survey takes too long to fill out and asks too many questions.
MCKNIGHT SAID THAT the response of his office was to make the survey attractive to people so that it would be helpful to them. But he doesn't want the survey to be too short, he said, because when the survey is simplified the results are distorted.
"I'm not so sure that we want to shorten it just so that people can get through faster," he said, "because the information is important to people."
The fundamental problem, McKnight said, is that no one has been able to identify precisely what good teaching is. He said it would be useful to create a set of questions for use in a survey.
Validation depends on being able to show correspondence between what a teacher says and what is written.
"ONE PROBLEM HERE," he said, "is that factors that lead to student achievement are certainly not limited to what happens in a classroom."
It helps to separate the functions of the survey, he said.
One function of the survey is to provide the students with information to select courses, he said. Another function is to provide a guide to classes with more descriptive information, he said, and a third function is evaluation of courses.
McKnight said his office wanted to develop a new student guide to courses that contained descriptive information on classes by the faculty. He said they might be working with the Student Senate on the guide.
McKnight said that the office was also interested in helping faculty members diagnose their classes. A survey might be given before spring break, he said, so faculty members would have information, as opposed to evaluation, on their classes.
FEEDBACK COSTS THE University $16,000 a year, half of the money going to computer costs, he said. McKnight said his office planned to submit a request for a grant or improvement package for Secondary Education. We are always looking outside for help in funding, he said.
The Feedback program is administered by the Office of Instructional Resources and the Office of Student Affairs in the schools and departments sometimes administer their own evaluation, McKnight
John Tollefonf, associate dean of the School of Business, said that faculty members were evaluated by the faculty in the course and that this evaluation wasn't for student use.
THE CURRICULUM AND Instruction Survey is widely used by the School of Business, he said, and the results are used with evaluation by the faculty committee in connection with tenure and promotion. The majority of the received comments from students that the survey was useful in selecting courses because most business courses were required. He has received comments from students that Feedback results should be used in evaluation, he said, so that students can be a voice in decisions on faculty standing.
Lee Young, associate dean of the School of Journalism, said that the School of Journalism does its own evaluation. He said every instructor must use some form of evidence to support his advice aren't for use by students, he said, but for promotion and tenure recommendations.
There is limited use of Feedback by the school, Young said, because the school doesn't think the instrument fits and because students don't like it.
"I'm not sure that publishing does that much," he said.
ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS
General Meeting of the Graduate Student Council
Monday, Dec. 8, 1975
Javhawk Room 7:30
GSC partly funded by Student Activity Fee
WHAT IS IT . . .
- On December 4 a17:00 p.m., the highest bidder on each item will receive the item upon payment.
- An auction of stereo equipment that lasts four days and has the bids anonymously posted.
- Bids will be accepted and posted continuously during business hours with the bidder's number.
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Major Brand Stereo Components
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- All bids over $100.00 require a $10.00 deposit, refundable upon supercession of bid.
- Entire stock not included . . selected items including floor samples, trade-ins, and overstock . . most with manufactur
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**TODAY:** THE KU-Y GIFT FAIR will at 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. Harry Shaffer, professor of economics, will speak at the FACULTY FORUM at noon at the United Ministries Center, 1294 Oread. The UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB will play bridge at 1:15 p.m. in the Watkins Room of the Union. AL LOVING, black American artist, will speak at 2 p.m. in the Forum of the Union. PETER VAIL, senior research adviser for Exxon, will lecture at 4 p.m. in 162 Lindley Hall. THE READING AND STUDY SKILLS PROGRAM will have an Exam Skill Review at 7 p.m. in Lewis Hall.
Events...
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5 Short Branch Coral . $4.55 Melon and Turquise . $4.65
3 Round Coral Beads . $5.45 Pen and Turquise . $4.35
Mother-of-Pearl Dove . $4.90 Olive and Turquise . $4.65
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FANFARES®
The Lawrence Mandolin & Guitar Ensemble at the Cornucopia Cafe
1801 Massachusetts THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 an Off-the-Wall Production
9:30 p.m.
Served with thin sliced roast beef, home-made dressing,
potatoes - smothered in dark brown gravy. Relishes
included
NEW YORKER SUPREME PIZZA Six Meat and Garden Toppings Reg. $5.25 $3.95
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LITWIN'S
831 Mass.
9:30-5:30 Man.-Sat.,
til 8:30 Thurs.