For Professor Gigliotti's sheet we have

00 - section number. Courses with a 00 section number are lecture courses, and  the evaluations are distributed in the lecture class. All other courses are  sorted by section number.

99999- index number: there is no index number for lectures, so this is a dummy number.

Gigliotti- Instructor's name

ENROLL: This is the enrollment for the course at the end of the drop-add period, and is provided to the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research by RUCS. For Professor Gigliotti's course, the enrollment was 400.

RESP: This is the number of forms scanned at the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research.

For Professor Gigliotti's class, 185 forms were completed by students in class the day the evaluation was conducted. These forms were scanned and processed by the CTAAR.

The five columns immediately to the right of each question show the frequency of response for each choice. So, for question 1, no one responded with a "1" or "strongly disagree",  two persons with a "2", three persons with a "3" or neutral response, thirty-three persons with a "4",and 143 with a "5" or "strongly agree".

# OF No Response:
This shows the number of forms scanned on which there was no response to the question, or the response was made in a way the scanner could not read. For Question 1, Professor Gigliotti had 4 "no responses".

Mean of Section: This shows the weighted average score for the instructor of the section, on a scale of 1 to 5, for each question. Just as a student's grade point average represents the student's average grade points per credit hour, the mean of section represents the instructor's average response per student in the section. Professor Gigliotti received a score of 4.75 out of 5 for Question 1.

Mean of Dept: This statistic shows the average score on the question for all courses scanned with the same school and departmental or program code as the section being reviewed for Fall 96. The mean score of the Economics department as a whole for Question 1 was 4.22.

Mean of xxx Level: This statistic shows the mean score for all courses at the same level as the course being reviewed in the same school and department or program for Fall 96. Professor gigliotti's course was a 100 level introductory course. The mean score for all 100 level economics courses for Fall 96 was 4.27 for Question 1.

The scores for all of the other questions can be interpreted in the same way. The first ten questions of the Student Instructional Rating Form are standardized for all departments. Questions 11 through 19 may be used by the individual instructor, or by a department. For example, the English department adds questions in the spaces marked 11-14, 16 and 17. The Physics department has five different versions of the Student Rating form, one for each type of course that they teach. Many instructors add questions of their own.  In the result sheet for Professor Gigliotti shown above, there are no responses for Questions 11-19 for his section, since he asked no questions number 11 through 19.  Data does appear in the Mean of Course, Mean of Department, and Mean of 100 Level columns.  Other instructors in Economics in Fall 96 added questions in the spaces provided for Questions 11 through 19.

Anyone with question concerning the reading of the results sheets for a course should contact the CTAAR at info@ctaar.rutgers.edu.