SRI to SLEQ
The following are changes to the feedback process as approved by senate in the latest revisiion of the student feedback policy. A full version of the policy is linked at the bottom of this page.
1. New Name
The SRIs will now be called the SLEQ (Student Learning Experience Questionnaire).
The emails from the system: question personalization, form fill-out and to monitor SLEQ response rates will now come from SLEQ@dal.ca and not dalsri@dal.ca.
Please note: These are different accounts and the dalsri@dal.ca email will be retired.
2. Changes to Questions
Question 8 is being removed: Students will no longer be asked if overall their instructor was effective. This will be replaced by a composite or overall mean of the other 7 questions on the SLEQ reports.
Two new open-ended questions will replace the previous 3 open-ended questions) as follows:
What are one or more specific things about the course design or instruction that especially helped to support your learning?
What are one or more specific things about the course design or instruction that could be improved to better support your learning?
3. New course content questions have been added.
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Dalhousie University Senate voted on Monday November 22nd 2021 to suspend the inclusion of these questions from the Student Learning Experience Questionnaire (SLEQ) for the 2021-2022 academic year.The SRCC questions will be re-introduced for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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The Dalhousie Student Union proposed the addition these questions to give students an opportunity to identify racist, sexist, homophobic, and any other oppressive content in course curricula and literature and share that feedback anonymously with their professors.
New questions:
1. Course materials reflected a variety of diverse perspectives on the course topic(s).
2. The instructor did not include materials that contained offensive or discriminatory ideas except to educate students about discrimination, oppression or educate about other existing perspectives.
3. Course materials were universally accessible.
4.a) What are one or more specific things about the course content that helped create an inclusive learning environment?
4.b) What are one or more specific things about the course content that could be improved to create a more inclusive learning environment?
The results of these course content questions will be reported directly to instructors and added to the regular “SRI” now “SLEQ” reports. Aggregated results only will be reported to Department Heads, Deans and Faculty level EDI chairs.
4. There will no longer be a distinction made between Signed and Unsigned Comments
All comments will automatically be reported to both instructors and department heads. This means that instructors and departments heads will now only receive one report per instructor for each course which will include all results (qualitative and quantitative). Students will no longer be asked to provide permission for these comments to be used for tenure and promotion purposes.
5. Opt Out
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NOTE: That Senate approve that pending review of the student evaluation questions by the Student Learning Experience Questionnaire Taskforce, any sharing of data with students per the Student Feedback on Learning Experiences Policy be suspended.
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Instructors must now opt-out if they do not want the results of the first 7 questions shared with students. Instructors will be contacted directly with instructions on how to op-out of this process. Previously, instructors opted in to this process.
To qualify for having their scores shared, any individual course SLEQ will need to receive a 40% response rate, a minimum of 10 responses and a “sufficient” reliability assessment score.
6. Process by which Discriminatory Comments might be Deleted
Under the revised Policy, a review committee consisting of the Vice-Provost Equity and Inclusion, the Vice-Provost Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice-President of Human Resources, the Chair of Senate Learning and Teaching Committee, and the University General Counsel (or their designates) would determine if a comment constitutes discrimination or harassment and should be deleted, should any comment be flagged by an instructor.
7. Evaluation Timing
Shorter courses will be evaluated after 80% of the course is completed with a minimum 2 day evaluation and a maximum 2 week evaluation. Any full-term courses will continue to be evaluated for the last two weeks of the course.
The full revised policy can be found on the Secretariat website: https://www.dal.ca/dept/university_secretariat/policies/academic/student-feedback-on-learning-experiences-policy.html