MUS-PRV Course Evaluation Reports

Owned by Kimberley Barker
Last updated: Sept 05, 2024
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This aricle summarizes how course evaluation reports for private music lessons work.

Overview

Instructors in the Music department receive Section-Instructor reports for every course taught including MUS-PRV courses. These reports often fail to meet our minimum enrollment threshold (Policy 4300 6.1) so they may appear greyed out or inactive in Blue.

The MUS-PRV report is a special report. It combines all private music lesson courses for a given instructor into a single report without course or student identifiers. Combining all MUS-PRV courses into one report gets student feedback to instructors while protecting student privacy in classes where enrollments are typically below the minimum threshold.

Known Gaps

  1. The MUS-PRV report accurately counts the number of responders across all (and only) MUS-PRV courses; however, the report counts the number of invited students across all courses taught by a given instructor (even if the course is in another subject area such as MUS or MUS-ENS), which inflates the denominator used in the response ratio calculation. As a result, the response ratio on MUS-PRV reports is inaccurate from a MUS-PRV response ratio perspective.

    The example illustrates how MUS-PRV reports are constructed and how the response ratio is calculated.

  2. If there are no MUS-PRV student responses saved or submitted, an empty MUS-PRV report will be generated.

Example

In this Spring 2024 example, the instructor taught:

  • MUS-ENS 327

    • 13 students enrolled/invited

    • 8 students responded

  • MUS 500

    • 2 student enrolled/invited

    • 0 response

  • MUS-PRV 101

    • 1 students enrolled/invited

    • 1 student responded

  • MUS-PRV 301

    • 3 students enrolled/invited

    • 0 students responded

  • MUS-PRV 501

    • 1 student enrolled/invited

    • 1 response

So, on the MUS-PRV report, the invited number is 20 (total invited across all courses taught in Spring 2024). The responded number is only from the pool of people enrolled in a MUS-PRV course—of the 6 students in one or another MUS-PRV course, only 2 saved or submitted the evaluation. For the response ratio, Blue counts the number of people who saved or submitted a MUS-PRV evaluation and divides it by the number of students who were invited to complete evaluations for any Music department course taught by the instructor. This results in a response ratio of 10.0%, which is inaccurate from a MUS-PRV response ratio perspective. (Figure 1)

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Figure 1. The Spring 2024 MUS-PRV Instructor Report header for the example instructor displays the invited, responded, and response ratio given the values provided in the example.

 

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