evals + job apps
So I am almost certain that I've seen something along these lines covered here before, but the tags aren't providing with me much help, so my apologies if this is a repeat.
I'm on the market this year, and I'm looking at applying for a job that is requesting (along with the standard app material) "any available teaching evaluations". I have been applying for a zillion jobs, but none so far has asked for student evals and so I haven't had to mess with them yet. So, a couple of questions about this:
1) I have been teaching for a proportionally long time, and I have tons of evaluations (a whole box worth). Surely they don't want all of these, right? Do they?
1a) My school returns the students' actual evaluations to the profs/TAs (these are the evals I have that fill a box). If they do want all the evals, what's the appropriate way to handle them? Copy them and send them in a packet? Scan them all and save them as an emailable PDF? Type all/some of them up to spare the search committee reading my students' handwriting? All of these options sound like a huge pain.
2) If you take "any available teaching evaluations" to mean "a representative sample of teaching evaluations", how do I actually go about providing a representative sample? For whatever reason, the kiddies tend to review me pretty well: I'd say that out of 100 evals, 95 would probably be positive, 3 would be like "eh" and 2 would be brutal. Let's say I sent 10 evals: if I sent 7 positive, 2 neutral and 1 mean, I think that certainly skews the sample I'm sending towards less positive feedback, but I can't think of any more balanced way to do it.
Any advice on how you all have dealt with managing student evals in your job searches would also be welcome. Thanks in advance.
I'm on the market this year, and I'm looking at applying for a job that is requesting (along with the standard app material) "any available teaching evaluations". I have been applying for a zillion jobs, but none so far has asked for student evals and so I haven't had to mess with them yet. So, a couple of questions about this:
1) I have been teaching for a proportionally long time, and I have tons of evaluations (a whole box worth). Surely they don't want all of these, right? Do they?
1a) My school returns the students' actual evaluations to the profs/TAs (these are the evals I have that fill a box). If they do want all the evals, what's the appropriate way to handle them? Copy them and send them in a packet? Scan them all and save them as an emailable PDF? Type all/some of them up to spare the search committee reading my students' handwriting? All of these options sound like a huge pain.
2) If you take "any available teaching evaluations" to mean "a representative sample of teaching evaluations", how do I actually go about providing a representative sample? For whatever reason, the kiddies tend to review me pretty well: I'd say that out of 100 evals, 95 would probably be positive, 3 would be like "eh" and 2 would be brutal. Let's say I sent 10 evals: if I sent 7 positive, 2 neutral and 1 mean, I think that certainly skews the sample I'm sending towards less positive feedback, but I can't think of any more balanced way to do it.
Any advice on how you all have dealt with managing student evals in your job searches would also be welcome. Thanks in advance.