The Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTEs) are Penn State’s locally developed instrument for gathering feedback from students at the end of the course. SRTEs were approved by the University Faculty Senate in 1985 and are administered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence manages the SRTE process and helps facilitate appropriate use of SRTE data.
Faculty / Instructors / TAs
University Administration
SRTE resources
- Guide to using and analyzing SRTE results (pdf)
- Student rating of teaching effectiveness: Recommendations for use by departments and faculty (pdf), Penn State internal report
- Appoint a college or department online SRTE representative (pdf)
- Managing online SRTE forms (pdf)
- University Faculty Senate
- Kansas State IDEA Center Resources, IDEA Papers No. 20 and No. 32, used with permission
- Making Sense of Student Evaluations, Lehigh University
Administrative Support Staff
Campus or college representatives
- View available paper forms
- Creating and editing forms
- Ordering paper SRTE forms for campuses or colleges
- Setting up for multiple instructors
- Administering paper SRTEs
- Collecting and reviewing paper SRTEs
- Submitting completed forms to the Schreyer Institute
- Receiving and distributing instructor results
- Training
Department representatives
Office of the Vice Provost for
Academic Affairs
Fall 2009 Calendar at-a-glance
- September 9 by noon - Paper orders due
- September 14 - Paper orders confirmed via email
- October 30 - Final cutoff for late paper orders. Forms delivered 13th week of classes.
- November 30 thru December 11 - Administer paper SRTEs and default offering period for online SRTEs
- January 15, 2010 by 4:15 p.m. - Completed paper forms due to Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
- On or before February 12, 2010 - SRTE Instructor Reports completed and returned to the campus representatives