Key Dates:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 9am: Evaluation window opens for students.
Thursday, December 10, 2009: Last day of classes.
Monday, December 14, 2009, 9am: Evaluation window closes for students.
January 2010: Online results available.
For Instructors:
For Students:
MIT Online Subject Evaluation Pilot
For students in 5.35/5.35U and 5.37/5.37U: Online subject evaluations begin Monday, November 2 at 9:00am through Friday, November 13, 9:00am. Evaluate your subject here.
Introduction
MIT is moving its central subject evaluation system online and away from paper-based forms. By Fall 2010, the entire central subject evaluation system will be online. In parallel with this effort, there have been related 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. Details on the entire project can be found at the project website.
Each phase of the pilot incorporated more departments, subjects and application features:
- Spring 2008 (22 subjects in 4 departments)
- Fall 2008 (53 subjects in 9 departments)
- Spring 2009 (226 subjects in 16 departments)
- Fall 2009's pilot expands to include an estimated 460 subjects in 27 departments
Benefits
Students can:- Fill out evaluation forms online anytime, and return as often as necessary, during the evaluation period.
- Evaluate multiple instructors for a single class.
- Type thoughtful open-ended comments, and have as much space as necessary.
- Give valuable feedback and make a difference in the quality of teaching at MIT.
- Submit their own questions.
- Spend class time teaching, rather than administering the evaluation.
- Get evaluations from all students, not just the ones present on the last day of class.
- Get richer feedback from students.
- Receive individual electronic reports, including open-ended comments, quickly.
- Enter teaching data more easily.
- Add department-specific and instructor-specific questions.
- Evaluate as many instructors as needed per subject.
- Match qualitative comments with instructor, with no typing or scanning required.
- Receive useful data for setting policy and making comparisons.
- Report on who is teaching what to whom — types of instructors, subjects taught by each instructor, and enrollment per subject.
- Report on longitudinal data.