Online Subject Evaluation/
Who's Teaching What
Online Subject Evaluation/Who's Teaching What Project
Over the next couple ofyears, MIT will be moving its central subject evaluation system online and away from paper-based forms. In parallel, there will be efforts to improve the quality of teaching data and the ease with which it is collected via a new "Who's Teaching What" web-based application. This website chronicles these efforts and describes the project plans in detail.
This is a multi-year joint project of the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and Information Services and Technology. DUE's Office of Faculty Support administers the Institute subject evaluation process. Contributing expertise and leadership for this project are additional staff from the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (DUE) and the Student and Administrative Information Services (IS&T).
Since 2006, many people from around the Institute have researched MIT policies and processes, examined practices at other institutions, determined requirements, and interviewed potential software vendors. The project team is now implementing their recommendations; for more information, see Background.
An initial pilot of the new WTW and online evaluation system was run in Spring 2008 for 22 subjects in four departments. The next pilots in 2008-09 will be increasingly larger, with full rollout to the Institute expected by the end of 2009-10. For more information, see Project Plan.
To address the many policy and process issues that have been identified, the Office of Faculty Support has formed an Advisory Group composed of faculty, students, and staff who began deliberations in Spring 2008.
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Announcements
8/22/2008 SPRING 2008 EVALUATION RESULTS UPDATE
Department administrators and instructors have been emailed custom reports for subjects evaluated online this Spring. The reports include the individual student responses (similar to the filled-in paper forms), as well as subject summaries.
Reports for department administrators are also available via a direct download from Digital Measures, our subject evaluation vendor. The download link and instructions are here (restricted to authorized users via MIT certificates):
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/results.html
Note: This site is recommended for department administrators only. Currently, the downloadable reports for instructors include only the subset of students who chose to evaluate them in the first part of the survey (Quality of Teaching). We are working with our vendor to provide the correct set of data to instructors via download; meanwhile, instructors should use the reports that were emailed to them, as those include all responses from students in the subject.
HTML summary reports are now available to the MIT community on the subject evaluation pilot site.
5/1/2008 ONLINE SUBJECT EVALUATION GOES LIVE ON MAY 5
The pilot test of the new online evaluation system will launch Monday, May 5, 2008 at 9:00 am. Approximately 1200 students will be evaluating 22 subjects. The start page for the online evaluations is here:
The evaluations will be available through Friday, May 16, 2008 at 9:00 am.
2/12/2008 SUBJECT EVALUATION IN THE NEWS
Read Diana Henderson's article on the subject evaluation project in the current issue of the Faculty Newsletter.
11/28/2007 USABILITY TESTING FOR WHO'S TEACHING WHAT USERS
A new Who's Teaching What interface is being designed right now!