FAQs for students about the Teacher-assessment questionnaires

It is used to determine student' degree of satisfaction with aspects of the teaching activity carried out in class, and at the same time, contribute to improving the programme itself.

For graduate students and/or university students master.

The Subject / Module Evaluation Survey contain questions about the structure and programming of the subject or module, the materials used, the course content, etc., while the Teaching Activity Evaluation Survey of Teaching Staff evaluates the activities carried out by the lecturers in the classroom.

The survey is scheduled to take place at the end of the teaching period in each semester: in December for teaching in the first semester (semester-long subjects/groups), and in May for teaching in the second semester (semester-long-subjects/groups) and for year-long subjects/groups.

Annual subjects-group are selected in the second half.

All the groups of a subject, that have both students enrolled and teachers with informed teaching, can be surveyed.

There are two ways in order the subject/group/teaching staff members could be part of the area to be surveyed and could appear in the list of available surveys for a teacher:

• Automatically: the automatic generation of the scope of the survey considers, for the "TE - theory" typology, the number of teaching hours received by students. In this case, students must have received at least 15 hours, and each possible teacher must have taught at least 10 hours.
• Manually: if the teacher could not automatically find the subject/group in the previous list of the scope of the survey, he/she can contact the Academic Secretary Service of his/her centre to request manual inclusion in the scope of the survey.

For other types of teaching duties (such as laboratory practices, classroom practices, seminars, etc.), that depend or that are linked to an enrolment theory group, it will be necessary to have taught a minimum of 2 hours to this group of students.

It is also possible to request the Academic Secretary Service to include, through manual programming, those groups considered to be surveyed.

Within the selection of the survey those subjects/modules-group-teacher with the following teaching typology TE-Theory and that fulfill the rest of the requisites are included.

Within the selection to survey, it can also be included those subjects/modules-group-teacher of other types of teaching duties (such as laboratory practices, classroom practices, seminars, etc.), dependent/linked to an enrollment theory group, and that the degree/centre has decided to include.

Evaluation and satisfaction surveys

The survey is offered in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Students receive an email that tells them the time limit for responding and they get several reminders during the response period. the time limit for responding will also be published on the UAB website and the faculty websites.

Each survey is identified with the course name and code number, the group's code number and the full name of the lecturer who taught the subject. On the page that shows the surveys to be answered, if you position the cursor on the teachers’ identification icon, you will be able to see their photograph. You can also have access to teachers’ picture when you are answering a specific survey, on the upper left side of the screen. Before starting studentsare asked to confirm that they have been taught by that lecturer. If they say yes they are given access to the survey identified in the header.

Students know which lecturer they are evaluating because each survey is identified previouly with the course name and code number, the group's code number, the full name of the lecturer who taught the subject, and also his/her photografy. On the page that shows the surveys to be answered, if you position the cursor on the teachers’ identification icon, you will be able to see their photograph. You can also have access to teachers’ picture when you are answering a specific survey, on the upper left side of the screen. If all the lecturers who taught the subject/group meet the conditions for evaluation, students can complete a survey for each lecturer who has taught them.

The results reports are sent to the different bodies that make up the university:
Governing Team: General report
Centres (Deans and Directors): General report and Centre report
Departments: General report and Departmental report
Degrees: General report and Degree report
Administration and Academic Management for each centre: General report
Teaching staff: Individual report (via intranet and Sigm@-CDS / Manual for access to results)
Teaching Units of the Faculty of Medicine: Teaching Unit report

Students: General report published on the website

 

On beginning to complete a survey, if you click on "Save" you can still modify your answers within the time allowed, but if you click on "Finalize" you can make no modifications, the survey is closed and it disappears from the list of pending suveys, whether or not you have replied to all the questions.
Replies to survey questions that have been saved but not ended are not taken into account when the reply period is closed.

Replies cannot be erased after clicking on "Finalize". This is only possible if you have clicked on "Save".

The subject/group may have been left out of the selection because it did not meet the evaluation conditions, and the programme does not display it for this reason.

The surveys are anonymous and confidentiality is guaranteed.  Students must identify themselves to be able to take surveys on the subjects/groups they are enrolled on. After completing the survey, when the student clicks on "Finalize", the replies are disassociated from the student's identity details. From this point, it is not possible to link the survey replies to the student who gave them.