Course/Teacher Evaluations (CTECs)
SCS uses the resources of Northwestern's Course and
Teacher Evaluation Council (CTEC) for student evaluation
of courses each quarter. CTEC has an electronic evaluation
site for each class with five or more students officially
enrolled.
The CTEC site will be open for students to enter evaluations
of their classes for three weeks until Sunday following finals
week, before any grades are posted. No student will be allowed
to enter the site after it has closed. Instructors will have
access to their class evaluation sites for one week prior
to the student access to add instructor questions and to
check the site. They may also set a link to the CTEC site
on their class web pages. Instructors will be notified by
e-mail by the Office of the Registrar when the site is open
to them. Instructors should not post or distribute grades
before the evaluation site has closed. Students not officially
registered in the class will not have access to the site.
Evaluation results will be made available electronically
to the instructors during the week following finals week
only after all grades have been submitted to the Registrar's
Office. The CTEC office will send a message to the instructors
when the results are available to them. Instructors use a
netID and password to access the site, and should review
all of their essay comments. Comments elicited from the first
four essay questions are for the use of the instructors only
and will be available only to them. Essay question five contains
the comments that may be published on the site made public
to the Northwestern community. Comments included under question
five that are salacious, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate
for publication, should be brought to the attention of the
CTEC office immediately for editing.
Evaluation results of all classes will be posted on the
CTEC section of the Registrar's web page unless instructors
request that their results be withheld. Posted results will
be available to all faculty and staff members within the
Northwestern community. Posted results will also be available
to all active Northwestern students who have entered evaluations
for all of their classes for the previous quarter.
The CTEC office produce hard-copy reports which will include
composite demographic information, the numerical results
for all of the questions asked, and the comment summary.
The SCS Assistant Dean will also receive a summary department
report.
For more information on CTECs, visit the CTEC website at
http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/ctec/
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