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Thursday, May 3, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Vote to Decide Feedback's Future
Bv DWIGHT DEAY
and
JEFFREY STINSON Kansan Staff Writers
The Curriculum and Instruction Survey, Feedback, at the University of Kansas has been criticized and rejected in past semesters by many students and professors who thought it lacked the validity of a scientific study.
A mail ballot that will be sent out Friday to all members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Assembly will decide whether a vote is to be implemented by the entire college.
Nancy Harper, Lawrence graduate student and director of the survey that publishes Feedback, said the ballot would be used by the survey would acquire scientific validity.
Assembly members will decide whether the survey will be uniformly applied to all courses offered by the college in which at least six students are enrolled, or on a voluntary basis by the instructor as it presently is.
THE ASSEMBLY will also vote on whether to retain the existing options of having the results returned to the instructor only; to him, his department chairman and the dean; or to him, his supervisors and also students through publication in Feedback.
"The results of the ballot will be extremely important to the continued progress of the survey because the results obtained from these statistics will be more valid than any other data received in the past." Harper said.
The results of the ballot, which will also decide the future of the proposed bachelor of arts degree changes, will be issued May 18.
Past results of the survey have been criticized because the partial data received was subject to distortion. For example, instructors who administered the survey have expected higher results than those who did not administer the questionnaire.
"IN GENERAL," Harper said, "the
in survey is progressing toward University
Harper said that last September she
died to the Student Senate and
proposed a bill.
sold to other schools, that it encourage more participation and that uniform application of the survey be achieved on some level in the University.
"By the end of May, all these goals should be realized by the survey," Harper said.
The survey is now in the process of completing the sale of its service to two universities, one of which is the Kansas State Teacher Education paper. Other school wishes to remain unnamed.
The service includes copyrighted questionnaires, an outline of the survey's procedures and computation of the client school's survey results.
HARPER SAID the survey of the survey could amount to a 12 per cent profit for the company.
A 15 per cent increase in faculty participation last fall was another reason for Harper's optimism about the future of the survey. The number of courses involved increased to nearly 1,000. However, this shift represents only half of the KU faculty.
Harper said she was encouraged by the fact that 75 per cent of the faculty now involved in the survey allowed publication of their course statistics in Feedback. This represents a 10 per cent increase from last year.
THE SURVEY was created by the Student Senate in 1969. The first questionnaire was formed from extensive research of the University of Illinois Educational Testing Service and Princeton University curriculum studies.
Harper said that in its first year the survey was a catastrophe. Both students and faculty were disgruntled with the presentation of the results by factor analysis. This method sought to discover groupings in major emphasis areas.
In the spring of 1972, the survey switched to a form of arithmetic mean scores for the students.
The individual results of surveys are kept confidential by survey personnel and Computation Center counselors. Results from these semesters are stored in Spencer Archives.
THE SURVEY has been funded $10,997 by the senate for the fall semester next year. It is second in priority on the contingency fund list and will receive a maximum of $10,000
The low number of Feedback copies sold are deceptive in appraising their use by the users.
for the spring semester.
"I last year a survey revealed that for
every copy of Feedback sold, eight people
asked for feedback."
Because this number would constitute
well over the total enrollment at the University, Harper admitted that the figure seemed a bit high, but she insisted that one student read every copy of Feedback.
Feedback now serves for 50 cents, and some student annotators have suggested reducing the cost of feedback.
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Information Asked From 4 Named in Alleged Assault
No date has been set for court action on the Albertison petition pending the return of the interrogatories and returns on the service cases from the four identified defendants.
The interrogatories were served in an attempt to establish the identity of two other attempts to identify a suspect.
At the time of the incident, Gould's son, Randy, was on trial in the district court in the same building. Gould was later acquitted of charges brought against him in the first case, 44,190, bombing of the residence of Danny Young, former Douglas County Attorney.
Interrogatories, written forms requesting information have been served on four known defendants named in a petition for damages by Timothy Albertson, Lawrence Duman, according to a notice filed in the clerk of the district court's office.
Albertson filed the petition following an alleged incident March 16 inside the Watkins Museum building at 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The petition charged Alan Gould, of Overland Park; Farid Solighalham, Kansas City, Mo.; senior; Marcia Walsh, Evanston, il.; junior; Lowell Wiley, Evanston, Ill.; identified persons with ridiculing Albertson and threatening him with bodily harm.
Walsh and Wiley were charged in the same petition with assault and battery for threatening to push Albertson down a flight of stairs.
Court action has not been set on the petition that Albertson filed against Randy Foster.
Abertison charged Gould with assault for allegedly threatening him during a meeting of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee in 18 to the Oream Room of the Kansas Union.
Court action will not be set until a return on the service of Gould's summons has been received.
Ridglea Trial Will Continue
The trial of an alleged former owner of Ridglea Apartments has been continued until 2 p.m. May 24 in Douglas County Court.
Intec Corp. of Albquereque, N.M., was named defendant on a charge of temporary deprivation of property filed March 26 by the Douglas County attorney's office.
The charge was based on the complaint of a University of Kansas student who claimed that Ridlea had not returned his deposit in accordance with the lease agreement.
A return on the service of a summons issued to alleged Ridglea owners David and Laverna Kitzinger of Albuquerque was dismissed. The County clerk of the district court's office
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