FAQs for students about the Teacher-assessment questionnaires

This tool makes it possible to gather student feedback on teaching and learning processes and obtain information that is useful:

• for teaching staff, to reflect on their teaching practice and identify both good teaching practices and areas that could be improved;
• for academic administrators, to inform decision-making aimed at enhancing the quality of teaching.

It is aimed at students enrolled in undergraduate and/or university master's degree courses.

It is scheduled at the end of the teaching period for each semester: in December/January for instruction delivered during the first semester (semester-based courses/groups), and in April/May/June for instruction delivered during the second semester (semester-based courses/groups) and for year-long instruction (year-long courses/groups).

Course groups classified as having annual instruction are surveyed in the second semester.

All groups within a course—provided they have enrolled students and instructors with recorded teaching activity—are eligible for evaluation.
There are two ways for a course, group, or instructor to be included in the evaluation scope and appear in an instructor’s list of available surveys:
•    Automatically: The automated generation of the evaluation scope considers the number of teaching hours received by students for the “TE – theory” category. Students must have received at least 10 hours of instruction, and each instructor must have delivered at least 10 hours of teaching.
•    Manually: If an instructor does not find a course or group in the automatically generated list, they may contact their faculty or school’s Academic Management office to request its manual inclusion in the evaluation scope.
For other types of teaching (such as laboratory sessions, classroom practicals, seminars, etc.) that are linked to a theory group, a minimum of 2 hours of instruction delivered to that group of students is required.
Additionally, instructors may request that the Academic Management office manually add any other groups they believe should be included in the evaluation process.

Within the selection of the survey those subjects/modules-group-teacher with the following teaching typology TE-Theory and that fulfill the rest of the requisites are included.

Within the selection to survey, it can also be included those subjects/modules-group-teacher of other types of teaching duties (such as laboratory practices, classroom practices, seminars, etc.), dependent/linked to an enrollment theory group, and that the degree/centre has decided to include.

Evaluation and satisfaction surveys

The survey is offered in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Students receive an email that tells them the time limit for responding and they get several reminders during the response period. the time limit for responding will also be published on the UAB website and the faculty websites.

Each survey is identified with the course name and code number, the group's code number and the full name of the lecturer who taught the subject. On the page that shows the surveys to be answered, if you position the cursor on the teachers’ identification icon, you will be able to see their photograph. You can also have access to teachers’ picture when you are answering a specific survey, on the upper left side of the screen. Before starting studentsare asked to confirm that they have been taught by that lecturer. If they say yes they are given access to the survey identified in the header.

Students know which instructor they are evaluating, as each survey clearly identifies the instructor—including their full name and photograph—along with the course code, the course title, and the group code. On the page listing the surveys to be completed, hovering the cursor over the instructor identification icon displays their photograph. Once a specific survey is accessed, these identification details also appear in the top-left corner. If all instructors who taught the course-group meet the evaluation criteria, the student may complete a separate survey for each instructor who taught them.

Global results reports are publicly available in the survey section of the website.
Surveyed faculty members can access their individual reports via the Intranet and Sigm@-CDS (see access manual).
Degree program and faculty/center-level reports are available to degree program coordinators and faculty/center leadership teams, respectively.

 

“Save” allows for subsequent modification of the entered responses, provided the response period is still active.

“Finalize” and “Submit” do not permit any further changes; the system considers the entry valid, and it is removed from the list of surveys awaiting a response.

 

Replies cannot be erased after clicking on "Finalize". This is only possible if you have clicked on "Save".

The course-group has likely been excluded from the selection because it does not meet the established assessment conditions; for this reason, the application does not display it for completion.

The surveys are anonymous and confidentiality is guaranteed.  Students must identify themselves to be able to take surveys on the subjects/groups they are enrolled on. After completing the survey, when the student clicks on "Finalize", the replies are disassociated from the student's identity details. From this point, it is not possible to link the survey replies to the student who gave them.