excellent_teachers: Teachers Ranked as Excellent from Fall 1993 through Summer...

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Teachers Ranked as Excellent from Fall 1993 through Summer 2017

Description

A collection of all "Teachers Ranked as Excellent" at UIUC from Fall 1993 through Summer 2017.

Usage

excellent_teachers

Format

A data.frame with 85,778 observations and 9 variables:

• term: Two letter semester code (sp, su, fa, or wi) followed by a four digit year.

  • Examples: sp2017, fa2013, su2012.

• semester: Two letter semester code

  • Examples: sp, su, fa, or wi

• year: Four digit year.

  • Examples: 2017, 2013, 2012.

• unit: The CITL-supplied headers for the unit teaching the course.

  • Examples: ACCOUNTANCY, ⁠SOCIAL WORK⁠, LINGUISTICS, ⁠NUCLEAR, PLASMA & RAD. ENGR.⁠

• lname: The last name of the teacher.

  • Examples: FAGEN-ULMSCHNEIDER, FLANAGAN, FLECK

• fname: The first letter of the first name of the teacher.

  • Examples: W, K, M

• role: Instructor or TA

• ranking: Excellent or Outstanding

• course: The course the teacher was ranked as excellent. If no course is given, the course field is set to NA (this includes cases when the raw data lists the course as 0, 000, or 999).

  • Examples: 199, 225, 560, NA

Details

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, every semester students complete an Instructor and Course Evaluation (ICES) questionnaire for each course they are enrolled. The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) compiles this data into the list of "Teachers Ranked as Excellent" and publishes the names of those teaches in the local newspaper and online as a PDF

Source

Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider

Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

http://waf.cs.illinois.edu/

References

https://github.com/wadefagen/Teachers-Ranked-As-Excellent-UIUC

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