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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">The Start of Term (SOT) online course survey, conducted at the start of each fall and spring semester, serves to identify students’ initial attitudes, values, and beliefs about courses and helps
faculty address them effectively. The SOT also amplifies the opportunities for constructing meaningful dialogues between instructors and students, while elevating the campus’ climate of mutual respect.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The schedule for administration of the Start of Term survey for fall 2016 is presented below:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">6 September<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Start of Term survey to be posted to each online student’s message board in eCollege<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">14 September<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Start of Term surveys on eCollege will no longer be available to students<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">15 September<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Results will be available to instructors and department heads<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Availability of Results –
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Individual instructors will be able to access the results from the Start of Term surveys in the same fashion as they currently access the SRTEs from their courses. Each instructor can locate the SOT results for
each course by navigating to your Pearson LearningStudio (eCollege) course shell from the Fall 2016 W1 term, select “Course Admin,” and then “Survey Results” from the menu. Individual course instructors will not be to access results prior to the completion
of the survey (14 September 2016). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The most notable change for fall 2016</span>
</b>is that<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></b><u>CFEI will prepare a summary report for each Department Head</u> presenting aggregated quantitative and qualitative SOT feedback from students taking courses within their department. For confidentiality
and end-user convenience, these departmental SOT results will be placed into the same secured server folder entitled COURSE EVALUATION file. This is the same file location that is currently being used to store paper-based SRTE results. Each department head
can use their unique sign-in privileges to access their department’s aggregated results. The expected production date of this report is Friday, 16 September 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Upon request, department heads can be provided with summary reports from any particular course/instructor within their department.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Additional Questions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">For additional information or specific question, please direct all inquiries to CFEI (<span lang="EN" style="color:#666666">903-886-5511</span>) or to Dr. Dave Giles at 903-468-8195 or
<a href="mailto:dave.giles@tamuc.edu">dave.giles@tamuc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Dave Giles, Ph.D.
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l</span><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black"> Educational Assessment Coordinator<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l </span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Academic Affairs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:Dave.Giles@tamuc.edu"><span style="color:blue">Dave.Giles@tamuc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">P.O. Box 3011 Commerce, Tx 75429-3011</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Tel. 903.468.8195
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black"> Fax 903.886.5991</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#7F7F7F">l</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D">
<a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/cfei"><span style="color:blue">www.tamuc.edu/cfei</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D">Texas A&M University-Commerce</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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