PGR Update

It looks like we are on track for the invitation e-mails for the new surveys to go out on Monday, December 8.  The survey will run through Friday, January 2.  We have a total of 469 nominated evaluators, though if past experience is any indication, not all the e-mail invites will go through successfully, but the vast, vast majority will.  A new feature this year (for which I'm grateful to Ted Ressell, the excellent IT person here at Chicago) will permit evaluators, after saving their scores, to then see the faculties re-ordered based on the 'overall' scores awarded (so, e.g., one will get a list starting with all the faculties the evaluator gave a 5, then the faculties that got a 4.5, then those that got a 4, and so on).  Evaluators then have the option of revising the scores.  This will, I think, be a powerful corrective for any order or other similar biases in the initial evaluations, and it is a feature that a number of evaluators have asked for over the years.