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Professors doubt survey's value
Reworking of the Curriculum and Instruction student feedback survey, which was discontinued in 1974 after it failed to provide effective results, was begun last year by student body president Mike Harper.
A KU class feedback survey, which was reinstated at the end of last semester, may be of aid to students. However, some KU professors have reservations about it.
The new survey is designed to give students feedback on classes and instructors from students who have already had those classes. Before the survey's restatement, the only survey used was the one that provided the teacher with information for teachers to consider instructor promotions, tenures, sabbaticals and salary increases.
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The reinstated surveys will provide evidence with evaluations of teachers and classes.
handed out to students at the end of last semester, but Tim Trump, chairman of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee, which administers the survey, said the cataloging process had begun too late and might not be completed in time to be printed for next fall.
"We might end up waiting, holding up and doing it next fall, complying both spring and fall."
Margaret Berlin, student body president did she thought the reinstated survey was a novel idea?
"Before students pay tuition during enrollment, they should know exactly how other student rates the classes they plan to take." Berlin said.
However, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics and president of the American Association of University Professors, said he had reservations about the new survey because instructors had the option of giving either the reinstated survey or the one
currently used by the University. Therefore, he said, not all classes would be represented by either survey and normal scales for the surveys could not be established.
"If academic members could be encouraged to participate on a large scale, and if norms could be developed," Srinivasan said, "the new survey would be a legitimate source of information for both students and instructors."
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Srinivasan said members of AALP did not think the original Curriculum and Instruction Survey had served its purpose, a valuable standable was available for commissions.
"The University has not been able to develop these norms," he said, "so the need for higher education is greater."
William Scott, associate professor of English and former president of ASAIP, said teachers often used the survey now in effect to determine if students are residents or to qualify for promotion or tenure.
"One is left with a situation where the
means that are used as a measure of faculty performance are not very reliable." Scott said. "It is not a very encouraging situation."
Trump said the new survey had three questions about the instructor's classroom performance and four questions dealing with class work.
An additional cost of the survey will be for the use of the University's computers.
The cost to the Student Senate for printing the new survey will be $1,500 for 5,000 copies. Trump said he thought 5,000 would be too much and had no plans to make sales were printed and distributed last year.
The seven questions on the reinstated survey were answered on IBM cards that could be fed into a computer for compilation. The cost for use of the computers will be absorbed by the Office of Information Technology, and the survey currently used by the University and is helping the Academic Affairs Committee compile the student survey.
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Board of Regents awards grants to resource center
Two grants, totaling more than $51,000,
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