MUS-PRV Course Evaluation Reports

Owned by Kimberley Barker
Last updated: Jan 14, 2025
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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 that 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 gives instructors student feedback while protecting student privacy in classes where enrollments are typically below the minimum threshold.

If no MUS-PRV student responses were saved or submitted an empty MUS-PRV report will be generated.

*Special reports are released after the last session of the term ends (typically a concurrent enrollment or a special session) and grades are posted. Dates are posted on the Course Evaluations website.

Enhancements (as of Fall 2024)

We added the University Questions so instructors can reference the same data set as part of the Promotion and Tenure process. (Figure 1)

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We updated how response ratios are calculated so instructors now see an accurate value for the evaluation overall and each University Question. (Figure 2)

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Reports Before Fall 2024

The MUS-PRV report accurately counted 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 inflated 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.

Example Report from Spring 2024

In this Spring 2024 example, the instructor taught:

  • MUS-ENS 327

    • 13 students enrolled/invited

    • 8 students responded

  • MUS 500

    • 2 students 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 was 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 counted the number of people who saved or submitted a MUS-PRV evaluation and divided 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 3)

The University Questions were not pulled into reports before Fall 2024. The questions/responses instructors were to use as part of the Promotion and Tenure process was at the discretion of the Music department.