Academic Survey

A wide ranging survey aimed at evaluation of both individual courses and under graduate life as a whole was distributed to all under graduates over the weekend.

The survey will be the most comprehensive study of undergraduate instruction and life in a decade. Dean K. Whitla, director of the Faculty's Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and one of the survey's designers said earlier this year.

Unlike the CUE Guide's survey of instruction. Whitla's study will evaluate students opinion of all their courses, their extracurricular activities and how they fir together as a whole.

"We are gathering an enormously elaborate amount of information." Whitla said yesterday.

"We've never had a sense of what students life is life to students tend to take all large or all small courses? If they're very busy with extracurricular, do they plan their schedules differently?" Whitla explained.

Whitla added that the results will be broken down not only by individual course, but also by "smaller groups, for example, students in different major, and in different years."

Although the cover letters for the survey said that completed forms would be picked up on Sunday evening, not all rooms had been reached as of yesterday.

The study's results should be available in the fall, Whitla said.