The following information appears on your Student Evaluation of Instruction Reports.
Identification infomation (top line of report) and examples:
- Instructor name (Smith)
- Class number (COMS 111)
- Course/reference number (5566)
- Section number (01)
- Department name (COMS)
- Date evalation was processed (12/02/17)
Item and rating information:
- Item - The item number is listed in the second column (it corresponds to paraphrase of item in first column).
- Valid rates - The number of students responding to the item.
- Avg. - The average or mean response for the item. Means are computed on the basis of the weights assigned to the potential responses by the academic department. Weighting possibilities include:
- A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5
- Means are calculated according (i.e., a mean of 4.2 is closer to an "E" response than an "A" response.) If no specific weighting practice is requested, this is the default pattern used.
- A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1
- A mean of 4.2 is closer to an "A" response than an "E" response.
- No weight by preference - if a deparment reports an item with a non-continuous response pattern
- For example, "yes or no" questions where "A" equals "yes" and "B" equals "no." No weights are assigned to the responses and the mean is reported as zero.
- A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5
- Median - The middle score, representing the hypothetical point above and below which 50 percent of the respondents' ratings were made.
- SD - The standard deviation of the responses to the item based on the assigned response weights.
- Rate A-E - the letters refer to the response positions on NIU's N5-19 scannable form
- No. - this value is the number of students who marked the respective letter response
- & - this value is the percentage of valid raters who marked the response
- Subgroup average - The average response or mean of all responses to the items included in the departmentally designated subgroup.
- No. of sheets - The total number of evaluation sheets processed for the course selection.