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Evaluations --li"ued from pase 5 qualify there,” Caron says. “It just simply doesn't have any of those ominous effects that teachers are concerned about.” he says. Another fallacy. Caron says, is that students give high ratings to "easy” professors or that they rate according to the grade they think they will receive. But studies have found that students commonly give a high rating to "lough." fair teachers, and these studies show no rela tionship between a student’s ex pended grade and his or her rating of a teacher. "It's a widely accepted fact that 'I)' students do not pan their teachers.” Caron says. "Overall, i think the science of evaluations has improved steadily in the past 20 vears." I,.. The role of the OSL Any decision on the present proposal will be voted on by the Assembly. But if history holds true and the Assembly votes against the proposal. SUAH has another alternative — the Oregon Legislature. The Oregon Student Lobby will present a bill to the Senate Education Committee, chaired by Margie Hendriksen. It* allow access for students in the state system of higher education to teacher evaluations. The preliminary draft of the motion calls for two parts of the evaluation form to Im: used ex pressly for aiding the develop ment of the faculty member's teaching skills and would be placed only in the faculty member's fib;, to be used in the determination of promotion or tenure. The third part of the evalua tion form would Im; tabulated, according to the proposed legislation, and made available to students in at least one cen tral location on their campuses. At the University, if this tabulation were to be published, its costs would Im; paid by the ASIIO. underOSL's legislation. Caron says that historically, the House of Representatives passes access bills such as that proposed by the OSL. but the same measure will die in the Jiffy’s Wine & Deli MNIMIMMHMMMUHIIHtUHMIHIMIIMMMH* SPECIAL QUANTITY DISCOUNTS: Champagne: Mumm s Errtra Dry $ 163 per case Andre $29.99 per case Cooks $45 per r as, Beer: BIMx... $ 1.99 per 6-pack (plus dep.> Pabst Blue Ribbon — !6oz cans .$2.69 per 6 pack (plus dep.) Budweiscr — l2oz cans $4.99 per Hi case (plus dep.) Dos Equis — liqhl or dark $ 1 7.30 per case (plus dep.) Price good thru 2/24/85 3443 Hityard 342 4552 Senate Education Committee. Ilendriksen. recently ap pointed to chair the committee, could be the "wild card" in the process, and give the legislation a better chance of passing. The previous chair. Clifford Trow, was opposed to the idea and partly responsible for tabling the bill in the past. Caron says. So while the campus may be in a temporary holding pattern, "it's a real live issue in Salem." Caron says. SIJAB spring evaluations SCAB will also initiate a pilot project this spring in which a minimum of 25 classes will be evaluated with the permission of the professor of each class. The evaluation will have selected questions from the department's existing evalua tion form and will be published forxludents’ use. SCAB hopes to build from this initial project, to be paid for by SUAB with surplus money from its budget, and eventually expand the project into a larger publication, possibly each term, if the Assembly agrees. Many other universities have used this quite successfully, with little or no reluctance on the part of the faculty. Evaluations elsewhere All University of California campuses have published teacher and course evaluations, paid for by the state Instruc tional Improvement fund, which provides money to in dividual campuses for the educational improvements. "It's a fairly low key process. We try only to enter information that's pertinent to the class — nothing personal, " says Saman tha Carvey, a staff member at tin? Course and Professor Evaluation office at the Univer sity of California at San Diego. "It's a very popular program. The professors even ask to see their evaluations, and I think they use them to improve their teaching," Carvey says. At the University of Washington, students can look at the information on microfiche in the Educational Assessment Center. About it) students come to the office to use the service each quarter. says Jerry Gillmore, director of the program. 'i'lie Washington campus started publishing a booklet once each year, after the univer sity president ruled that evalua tions were subject to the state's public disclosure law and anyone could look at the evalu tions, Gillmore says. Hut publishing was halted because of funding cuts and because students weren't using the booklet. The microfiche system costs about $.'H) each term. Gillmore says. Kwan Wong, director of the University of Washington's Of fice of Academic Affairs, started the project last summer, and though then; has been no of ficial endorsement by the facul ty. Wong feels the support exists. "The administration is com pletely behind us. and I think our biggest opposition was with some of the faculty and because of money." Wong says. "In the past, we didn't have a real program to provide an over view of academia. But students must act as consumers in get ting their education." he says. Whether or not the issue will pass the test here at the Univer sity or at the Legislature re mains to be seen. Richard Schmuck. chair of the Faculty Personnel Gommit lee. which gives recommenda tions to Hill about the granting of promotion and tenure to in dividual professors, says he thinks the idea is a good one but that the University faculty may not agree. “It can be very embarrassing to people, so I think a number of people would had uncomfor table with the idea." Schmuck says. "Other groups argue that evaluations are not important and that you’re placing em phasis on the wrong things." he says. "Some may vote against it just because its a SUAB pro posal.” he says. "It has the potential to really open things up where the whole community could see it. which is not the case now." Schmuck says. COUPON • COUPON • COUPON • COUPON COUPON • COUPON • COUPON COUPON - COUPON ■ RESTAURANTS CHEESE BURGER with Curly Q Fries BUY ONE — GET ONE FREE! 11:30 a.m. to Closing Orders To Go No substitutes please. Valid thru Sunday, Feb. 24,1985 1675 Franklin Blvd. 484-4644 ACROSS FROM THE DORMS HOURS: Mon.-Thur. 6am-10pm Fri. & Sat. 6am-11pm Opens at 7 on Sun. COUPON • COUPON •COUPON •COUPON •COUPON v COUPON • COUPON • COUPON • COUPON — Mystery will be staged "Thu Misunderstanding." a play by Albert Camus, will open Monday in Villard Hall's Pocket Theatre at 4:45 p in. 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