CTAAR Newsletter

Online SIRS Begins Nov. 18

The online version of the Student Instructional Rating Survey (SIRS) is set to start on November 18 at 12:01 A.M., for most courses. Students will have until December 10th to complete the survey and will receive up to 4 email reminders.

Faculty and instructors who have not received an email notification from us concerning an online survey will still conduct their surveys using the paper forms. Currently all of FAS Newark, the Rutgers Business School, College of Nursing, Mario College of Pharmacy, and School of Engineering are using the online system, as well as courses in departments in New Brunswick and Camden that have made earlier arrangements with us.

For more information, refer to our frequently asked questions about the online SIRS and the procedures for the online survey.

Posted by jpd on November 16, 2009 10:46 AM

SIRS Summer Session Results

The Student Instructional Rating Survey results for Summer 2009 are complete and have been distributed to all instructors, faculty and departments.

All summer session surveys were conducted using the new online survey system. Results were emailed to faculty and instructors on August 20th. Departments can find a copy of all the results for their department in a Sakai dropbox. Please refer to the instructions on how to retrieve the survey files.

If you have not received your survey results or there are any issues you would like to address, please contact us at info@brokenemail.rutgers.edu please replace "brokenemail" with ctaar.rutgers.edu.

Posted by jpd on September 17, 2009 01:19 PM

Spring 2009 SIRS results available now

The full set of results for the Spring 2009 Student Instructional Rating Survey (SIRS) are available now at http://sirs.rutgers.edu/.

Published results include all courses that had surveys in both the paper and online survey systems, for all courses taught by faculty and part-time lecturers. Please be advised that the University Counsel has determined that posting Student Instructional Rating Survey information for Teaching Assistants must cease as of Fall 2004 because of the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).

For surveys conducted on paper, the results and original forms were returned to the department contact person after the forms were scanned in June or July. Instructors who have not received their results or comments should contact their department administrator.

Results for surveys conducted online were returned to instructors by email on May 19. If you did not receive your results, please contact us at info@broken-email.rutgers.edu please replace "broken-email" with ctaar.rutgers.edu.

Posted by jpd on July 27, 2009 10:11 AM

Summer Courses using online Surveys

For Summer 2009, we are using the online system for Student Instructional Rating Surveys in all courses on all campuses.

The surveys for a summer course should run in the final week of the course. Instructors will receive a notification of the survey date prior to the start of the survey, with an opportunity to make any necessary corrections. We ask that you read the information carefully; running the survey on the wrong dates or with the wrong instructor's name can impact the results.

Please refer to the Online Student Instructional Rating Survey for more information.

Posted by jpd on July 2, 2009 09:15 AM