{"637467":{"#nid":"637467","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Given Access to CIOS Results","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of each semester, students are asked to fill out Course Instructor Opinion Surveys (CIOS) for each course they took. Instructors, TAs, school chairs, and administrators use the results of the surveys to measure students\u0026rsquo; perceptions of a course and its instructor. Now, students also have access to CIOS results dating back to 2010. Note that many courses do not have data for the Spring 2020 semester, when Georgia Tech conducted the Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning Survey instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EData is available for courses whose CIOS response rate was greater than 30% for a given semester. Students can view average values for each question that required a numerical answer (usually on a scale from 1-5), including overall instructor effectiveness, overall course effectiveness, and the average hours per week spent on the course. Students do not have access to the comments written in the surveys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents have had access to the CIOS scores in the past, as granted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/policylibrary.gatech.edu\/faculty-handbook\/3.3.7-promotion-and-tenure-evaluation\u0022\u003EFaculty Handbook\u003C\/a\u003E. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/academiceffectiveness.gatech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Teaching-Effectiveness-Final-Report-Sept-2019.pdf\\\u0022\u003ETask Force on Teaching Effectiveness\u003C\/a\u003E discovered that students currently did not have access and sought to restore it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom there, Bonnie Ferri, vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development and data trustee of CIOS information, the Office of Academic Effectiveness (OAE), and the Student Government Association (SGA) teamed up to make the idea a reality. They spent the 2019-20 academic year working with SmartEvals, the company that hosts the CIOS each semester, to develop a dashboard capable of displaying the data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile other programs like Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/critique.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECourse Critique\u003C\/a\u003E or the third-party \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/\u0022\u003ERate My Professors\u003C\/a\u003E show grade distributions and student opinions about a professor, respectively, SGA and OAE see the CIOS as a more complete data set that reflects how students felt about a specific course.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Course Instructor Opinion Survey is just that: an opinion survey,\u0026rdquo; said Loraine Philips, associate provost for Academic Effectiveness. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s designed to capture students\u0026rsquo; perceptions of their learning experiences in a course.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By opening up CIOS information to students, I believe it will allow for a greater understanding of the courses they may choose to enroll in, as well as their past enrollments,\u0026rdquo; added Jackson Caruso, academic affairs vice president for SGA. \u0026ldquo;My hope is that it will also encourage more students to complete their surveys.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about what data different groups can access, as well as how to do so, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/academiceffectiveness.gatech.edu\/surveys\/cios\/accessing-cios-and-survey-results\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents can now view average values for questions that required a numerical answer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students can now view average values for questions that required a numerical answer."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2020-08-03 19:46:58","changed_gmt":"2020-08-04 16:56:12","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"637472":{"id":"637472","type":"image","title":"Survey Graphic","body":null,"created":"1596487007","gmt_created":"2020-08-03 20:36:47","changed":"1596487007","gmt_changed":"2020-08-03 20:36:47","alt":"A cartoon hand selects a rating of 1-5 stars.","file":{"fid":"242484","name":"GettyImages-1158282318.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GettyImages-1158282318.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GettyImages-1158282318.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":200063,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GettyImages-1158282318.jpg?itok=GPcXS5_V"}}},"media_ids":["637472"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4446","name":"cios"},{"id":"13723","name":"Course Instructor Opinion Survey"},{"id":"182978","name":"office of academic effectiveness"},{"id":"185456","name":"OAE"},{"id":"166922","name":"sga"},{"id":"166923","name":"student government association"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}