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Instructor/Course Evaluations: Faculty
Function
Teaching and Academic Programs
PIB
RRSDA Number
1998-034
Department
All University Departments
Description, purpose and use of records
Forms completed anonymously by students to assess courses and the performance of faculty instructors. Evaluation forms are used by the departments and faculties when reviewing faculty members for contract renewal, tenure, promotion and salary review.
Apply this schedule to the original machine-scored bubble sheet forms only if summary documents are not compiled. If complete and accurate summary documents are compiled, the forms can be treated as transitory records and destroyed immediately. See the Retention and Filing Guidelines section below for more details.
Note that this schedule does not apply to student evaluation forms completed assessing Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) employees – teaching assistants, sessional instructors, and distance education tutors, markers and (if non-faculty) supervisors; these have different retention requirements and are scheduled separately under RRSDA 1999-006.
All departments must include a collection notice on either the evaluation form or as part of the evaluation procedure, informing students that original forms and/or any summaries will be made accessible to the person being evaluated following final approval of grades (as per the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act).
Retention periods
| Records | Active Retention |
Semi-Active Retention | Total retention | Final disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All departments holding these records | Under Review | |||
Active = Active Retention Period, Keep in Office; Semi-Active = Semi-Active Retention period, transfer to University Records Centre; CY = Current calendar year; CFY = Current fiscal year; CS = Current semester; S/O = Superseded or obsolete; OPR = Office of Primary Responsibility; Non-OPR = All other departments
Authorities
These records are created, used, retained and managed in accordance with the following authorities:
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (RSBC 1996, c. 165)
- SFU Policy A 11.01, Tenure Track Appointments
- SFU Policy A 11.02, Promotions Policy
- SFU Policy A 11.03, Renewal, Tenure and Promotion Procedures
- SFU Policy A 11.05, Criteria for Appointment, Contract Renewal, Tenure, Promotion and Salary Review
Retention rationale
This schedule is currently under review.
Retention and filing guidelines
Do not file evaluation forms with the instructor’s personnel file or with the general course file. These different record types have different retention requirements which are easier to apply if they are kept as separate blocks of files. See RRSDAs 1996-004 for Academic Personnel Files (Continuing Employees), 1994-001 for Academic Personnel Files (Non-Continuing Employees), and 1999-002 for Course Files.
File evaulation forms on evaluation files. Organize files by semester and within these groupings by course / section number, then by instructor’s surname.
It may be departmental practice to prepare a summary document from the forms. A summary document makes the machine-scored bubble sheet forms transitory. Therefore, the evaluation forms can be destroyed upon the compilation of a summary document. Apply the total retention periods outlined in this RRSDA to summary documents.
Note that machine-generated summaries fail to capture written comments on the evaluation forms. Compile a summary of the written comments if: 1) the original evaluation forms are to be destroyed; and 2) the comments are deemed useful for future faculty assessments.
Do not apply this schedule in the event that evaluation forms due for destruction are being used as evidence in a formal dispute involving the University and which is still on-going (e.g. grievance, arbitration, Human Rights Commission, legal proceedings): retain evaluations until final decision / resolution is concluded, plus one additional year, then destroy.
Departments may wish to retain the records in-office for the full retention period (i.e. 5 years) rather than sending them to the University Records Centre (URC) for semi-active storage. In this case the department will be responsible for destruction. Evaluation forms contain personal information and must be destroyed by confidential shredding; contact Facilities Management to make arrangements.
Status
RRSDA is in force
Approval Date
12 Oct 2000
Last Revised Date
1 Aug 2005