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- FAQ for Instructors
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SET Info for Instructors
What is the rationale for developing the new SET questions? What was wrong with CAPE?
CAPE was originally developed as a student-run service. The original questions were developed by students, for students, and not explicitly intended to evaluate the quality of an instructor’s teaching. Since then, the faculty review process has become (overly) reliant on CAPEs to evaluate teaching, which the CAPE form was never explicitly designed to support.
The transition to SET, which is managed by the Holistic Teaching Evaluation Oversight Committee–a committee that includes faculty, students and staff, will ensure that the forms fulfill the dual purposes of providing information to students to help them choose what classes to take, and providing information from students to help evaluate an instructor’s teaching.
What is different about the SET questions compared to the CAPE questions?
The SET questions are designed to focus on aspects of student learning and teaching practices. More notably, the “summary” questions (“Would you recommend this course/instructor?) have been removed as general questions like these are shown to lead to biased responses (e.g. based on the gender, race, age, etc. of the instructor).
What will be considered as a successful teaching evaluation?
Will removing the quantitative summary questions have a negative impact on students’ or the department’s ability to evaluate the course and the instructor? What will be considered as a successful teaching evaluation?
Answer: It is true that students and evaluators will no longer be able to use these “overall” scores to form a quick (but potentially biased) assessment of a course or instructor. However, the questions on the current form provide a more authentic insight about the quality of the course.
How does SET work?
EVALUATION WINDOW:
On Monday of Week 9 each student will be notified that they can now submit their SET forms via the Evaluations site. The evaluation window will close for students at 8am on Saturday of Week 10.
CUSTOM QUESTIONS:
Instructors have the option of adding up to 5 custom questions to their forms. These questions may use a Likert-scale (Strongly Disagree - Strongly Agree) or ask for an open-ended response.
If you would like to pose specific questions to your students, you should submit these questions on the Evaluations site (for SET). More information about writing and submitting custom questions is on these pages. The deadline to enter properly formatted custom questions is the day before SET starts (SET starts on the Monday of Week 9).
DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM WIDE QUESTIONS
The HTOC team is working on the SET functionality so that departments/programs will be able to add a set of custom questions to their faculty’s SET forms. Please check back here soon for more information!
PUBLIC SET RESULTS
If you are looking for the SU23 and beyond SET results, please go here:
https://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/Modules/Evals/SET/Reports/Search.aspx
How to boost your SET response rate?
Inform and encourage students in class. We cannot stress how important this is. SET will not be successful without faculty encouragement! For more guidance and ideas, check out these tips for increasing student response rates.
Can I opt out of SET?
No.
How are team-taught classes being handled?
SET uses data from the Registrar to identify all team-taught classes and generate a survey for each instructor listed. Please update all information with the Registrar!
Can I submit custom questions for the surveys?
Instructors have the option of adding up to 5 custom questions to their forms. These questions may use a Likert-scale (Strongly Disagree - Strongly Agree) or ask for an open-ended response.
If you would like to pose specific questions to your students, you should submit these questions on the Evaluations site (for SET). More information about writing and submitting custom questions is on these pages. The deadline to enter properly formatted custom questions is the day before SET starts (SET starts on the Monday of Week 9).
How do I access my SET data and comments?
Instructors, faculty, and staff can locate raw data, stats, and comments by logging in to https://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/Modules/Evals/SET/Reports/Search.aspx
Why don't I see my SET feedback for my course?
If you don't see any feedback it is because there were too few responses.