Hello everyone,

I am currently undergoing the job application process.  Many of the jobs I
am applying for ask for summaries of course evaluations.  I don't have any
models for such a document, so I just plowed right in.  At this point I've
taught about a dozen courses, so there's quite a bit to say.  The way I've
set it up right now, is for each class, I give a brief paragraph
description of the class: number of students, number and length of meetings
per week, content overview, class session description, and statement about
how students earned their grades (e.g. type of exams/homework/papers etc.).
 After that, I provide a quantitative analysis of rating scale items on the
course evaluation forms (I present means and modes).  Finally, I discuss
qualitative comments from students, highlighting course/instructor
strengths, the most consistent negative comments, and noting any
inconsistencies in student comments (e.g. students were split on the issue
of group work, with some saying that it was the best part of the course and
others feeling that it was a waste of time).  I organized this in
chronological order, so I can talk about changes made based on past
feedback, and at one point (after about 4 courses reviewed) I wrote an
extensive personal reflection section, saying that I noticed these trends
and this is what I did about them (or why I chose to continue certain
practices).  Well, the document is 10 pages long.

My questions are:
1.  What do you expect to see in a document like this when you are looking
to hire a new faculty member?  
2.  Is this too long?  
3.  Would it be reasonable to develop a shorter version to send to some
jobs and send the full version when the school emphasizes teaching in the
advertisement?
4.  What would you cut?  I'm really having difficulty with that, since you
need to know that the course met 7 days a week at 7:30am for 3 1/2 weeks in
the summer to understand why the most consistent negative comment was that
the student's hated the time the class met.

I'd be happy to share the actual document with anyone who is really
intrigued (or is on a faculty looking to hire a budding social
psychologist/methodologist/statistician instructor;-)

Thanks in advance,
Don
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Donald J. Rudawsky
University of Cincinnati
Dept. of Psychology
PO Box 210376
Cincinnati, OH  45210-0376
513.558.3146
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepages.uc.edu/~rudawsdj

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