At a special joint committee meeting of the UOITFA and UOIT, the following final report and recommendations were approved. While more work remains to be done in implementing the recommendations, this concludes the activities of the working group set out in Letter of Understanding #4 Re Student Course Evaluation Working Group in the 2015-18 Tenured …
Student Course Evaluation Working Group UOITFA Position Statement Summer 2016 The UOITFA has identified the use, storage and value of student opinion surveys (SOS) as a significant priority. A number of studies have been produced on this topic; while debate on the usefulness of these as a measure of teaching effectiveness abounds, virtually all scholarship …
We would like to thank all of our members who participated in this process to date. The FA has objected from the outset to the interpretation of the LOU as requiring an excessive and unwarranted focus on “individual concerns”, through individual appearances before committees, while simultaneously excluding “individuals’ workload assignments”. This process has created an …
While student course evaluations are an important tool for self-reflection, they remain an “imperfect indicator of teaching performance.”
As a result of a memorandum of agreement between UOIT and the UOITFA, a joint committee was struck to review the use of course evaluations. The following report was submitted by the UOITFA: UOITFA Teaching Evaluation Report
A controversial new report is claiming that just under 20 per cent of faculty in Ontario are not “research active” and should have their teaching loads doubled. Teaching Loads and Research Outputs of Ontario University Faculty: Implications for Productivity and Differentiation, published by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in March, surveyed 10 university …
