SPOT Teaching Evaluations

Every instructor must give SPOT evaluations in every section during the last ten days of the semester (or the last five days of summer school). Exceptions are DIS and other courses with three or fewer students where the student's anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Instructors must follow the SPOT Guidelines in the Faculty Handbook for administering SPOTS. Faculty should take special note of the following:

• The instructor must not be present in the classroom during administration of the evaluations. An instructor who wishes a monitor to be present should ask another faculty or staff member to administer the evaluation.
• Instructors must have no contact whatever with the forms during or after evaluation. Someone other than the faculty member must be appointed to collect the completed forms and pencils and to return them to department office immediately after administration. For a night class, that person should slide the envelope with the forms under the department chair's door. Pencils should be placed in the instructor's mailbox. 
• Evaluations should be given in regular class settings and not under atypical circumstances, such as at a class party. Instructors should avoid actions that could be seen as attempts to influence student opinion, such as passing out food or candy before evaluations.
• Students should specifically be encouraged to write written comments in the space provided. Written comments often provide the most useful feedback to instructors.