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A great deal of progress has been made on campus to improve teaching and learning. In recent years and as a response to action by the University Senate, a campus-wide set of guidelines for the evaluation of courses and instructors has been developed. Besides providing guidelines for academic units to create their own web-based systems, i.e., departments have this choice, a new campus-wide evaluation system, i.e., the Purdue Instructor Course Evaluation Service (PICES) was created, thus replacing the previously used CAFETERIA system. In fall 2009, the PICES system transitioned to an online format. Access to online course evaluations and evaluation results are available on the CourseEval site

Departments and instructors are encouraged to use a wide array of tools and strategies for assessment and evaluation of their curricula, individual courses and teaching by their instructors throughout the semester. Contact the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) for information for more assistance in this area.

Directions for students:

  1. Enter career account and password.
  2. Click on the “Open Survey” button to the far right.
  3. Respond to questions.
  4. Click submit.
  5. Complete ALL evaluations to avoid e-mail reminders. You may be asked to complete more than one evaluation for the same course.
  6. If instructor requests confirmation: Select “Completed Surveys” from the “Survey” menu in the top brown bar. Print the page.

Directions for faculty:

  1. Enter career account and password.
  2. Select the correct year and semester from the “Survey Year” and “Survey Period” drop-down menus.
  3. Ensure remaining drop-down menus display “Show All.”
  4. Select the evaluation report you wish to view (It should be highlighted in yellow).
  5. Click “View Report” (NOTE: Clicking “View Report” while multiple evaluations are highlighted will result in one long report).
  6. Evaluations conducted online during previous semesters will always be available if you have a working career account and password.

To view University Senate Document 97-9. University Senate Document 97-9
To view the Purdue Instructor Course Evaluation Service (PICES) system.       Purdue Instructor Course Evaluation Service (PICES)
To view the PICES system catalog of over 600 items. PICES system catalog
Link to information on Formative Evaluation