{"id":1560,"date":"2019-11-06T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:42:40","slug":"test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"1208\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1208 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\" alt=\"Test Scoring\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640-423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640-634x422.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Test scoring and course evaluation services are offered for all UMaine faculty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OIRA offers test scoring services for faculty and manages the paper and online student evaluations of teaching process.<\/p>\n<p><b>Testing Services<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testing Services provides scanning services for faculty.\u00a0 We have now moved to 120 Alumni Hall. The office is right inside the middle outside door facing the parking lot.\u00a0 Please drop your tests off at the office or, if it is after the hours of 8 to 4:30, drop your tests off at the Reserve Desk in the Reading Room at Fogler library and let Lisa Henderson (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:lisa.henderson@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lisa.henderson@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) know that tests have been dropped off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Student Evaluations of Teaching<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The use of the online Student Evaluations of Teaching System\u2014eXplorance Blue\u2014has grown significantly over the past year. We now have roughly 60% of academic units using Blue for all evaluations.\u00a0 Some updates include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent version upgrade has allowed us more flexibility, particularly with respect to multiple instructor courses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/faculty-services\/online-course-evaluations\">Student Evaluation of Teaching<\/a> portion of our website for information on forms, timing, process, and tips and tricks for implementing online student evaluations of teaching.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tip: To maintain adequate response rates we recommend setting aside class time to do evaluations in Blue, consistent with the process for conducting paper evaluations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your academic unit is still using paper forms for student evaluations of teaching but interested in going online, please contact Ryan Weatherbee (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:ryan.a.weatherbee@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ryan.a.weatherbee@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).\u00a0 For questions about the online process not addressed on the website, please contact Lisa Henderson (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:lisa.henderson@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lisa.henderson@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OIRA offers test scoring services for faculty and manages the paper and online student evaluations of teaching process. Testing Services Testing Services provides scanning services for faculty.\u00a0 We have now moved to 120 Alumni Hall. The office is right inside the middle outside door facing the parking lot.\u00a0 Please drop your tests off at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nov-2019-newsletter","category-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OIRA offers test scoring services for faculty and manages the paper and online student evaluations of teaching process. Testing Services Testing Services provides scanning services for faculty.\u00a0 We have now moved to 120 Alumni Hall. The office is right inside the middle outside door facing the parking lot.\u00a0 Please drop your tests off at the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Nov 2019 Newsletter\",\"Updates\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\",\"name\":\"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426,\"caption\":\"Test Scoring\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/\",\"name\":\"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment\",\"description\":\"Just another University of Maine Sites site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/06\/UMaine-FullCrest-Office-of-Institutional-Research-and-Assessment-DarkBlue-SPOT.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/06\/UMaine-FullCrest-Office-of-Institutional-Research-and-Assessment-DarkBlue-SPOT.png\",\"width\":3292,\"height\":1267,\"caption\":\"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine","og_description":"OIRA offers test scoring services for faculty and manages the paper and online student evaluations of teaching process. Testing Services Testing Services provides scanning services for faculty.\u00a0 We have now moved to 120 Alumni Hall. The office is right inside the middle outside door facing the parking lot.\u00a0 Please drop your tests off at the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/","og_site_name":"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment","article_published_time":"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":426,"url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching","datePublished":"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/"},"wordCount":276,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg","articleSection":["Nov 2019 Newsletter","Updates"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/","name":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - University of Maine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-06T15:52:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-11-13T15:42:40+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/10\/man-3653346_640.jpg","width":640,"height":426,"caption":"Test Scoring"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/test-scoring-services-and-student-evaluations-of-teaching\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Test Scoring Services and Student Evaluations of Teaching"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#website","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/","name":"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment","description":"Just another University of Maine Sites site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#organization","name":"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/06\/UMaine-FullCrest-Office-of-Institutional-Research-and-Assessment-DarkBlue-SPOT.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/502\/2019\/06\/UMaine-FullCrest-Office-of-Institutional-Research-and-Assessment-DarkBlue-SPOT.png","width":3292,"height":1267,"caption":"Office of Institutional Research and Assessment"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/author\/"}]}},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":117,"label":"Nov 2019 Newsletter"},{"value":113,"label":"Updates"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":117,"name":"Nov 2019 Newsletter","slug":"nov-2019-newsletter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":117,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":117,"category_count":6,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Nov 2019 Newsletter","category_nicename":"nov-2019-newsletter","category_parent":0},{"term_id":113,"name":"Updates","slug":"updates","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":113,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":46,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":113,"category_count":46,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Updates","category_nicename":"updates","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/oira\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}