Centre for Academic and Instructional Development - Administering ICE

Points to Consider

1. The Senate Office website provides dates for Evaluation Week for the current academic year.
2. Instructors should allow 15 minutes of class time for administration of the ICE.
3. It is not possible to alter any of the individual items on the ICE form. Students are asked to complete the form as provided.
4. Instructors may development a Supplemental Questions sheet customized to represent a current evaluation need.  This sheet may contain a maximum of twelve questions (numbered from 41 – 52) which students should be able to answer using the 5-point response scale on the ICE form.
5. Instructors can write their own supplemental questions or select them from categories/questions provided in the Data Bank.
6. Instructors should identify a student to be the Student Evaluation Administrator prior to evaluation day
7. After the instructor has left the classroom, the Student Evaluation Administrator will read the Statement of Purpose and Procedures to students (provided in the evaluation package) and administer the evaluation.
8. The Student Evaluation Administrator must return the package to the Senate Office immediately following the evaluation, or immediately following the end of class.  Envelopes not returned within that timeframe may not be processed by the Senate Office.
9. Original ICE forms will be returned to instructors as they contain student responses to the two open-ended questions. These comments will not be transcribed or centrally kept.  These forms will be returned at the same time as the reports generated from the closed response questions.
10. Individual faculty should retain paper copies of their Reports and original (or transcribed) copies of student responses to the open-ended questions.
11. All reports generated each semester will be kept electronically on a server maintained by ITSS.  Eventually this will constitute a ten year record of evaluations.
12. Research on student evaluations suggest that they are quite reliable when based on the responses of ten or more students.  Ratings based on fewer than ten student responses should be interpreted carefully.

Directions for Administering

Directions for the Instructor

Directions for the Student Evaluation Administrator (SEA)

Statement of Purpose and Procedures – to be read by the SEA after the instructor has left the classroom

Contacts

Chair of Senate: Dr. Don Naulls, Department of Political Science