Evaluation of teachers and courses.
Each semester, students are invited to evaluate the teachers and the courses of the programme — anonymously, electronically, and with the sole purpose of improving the level of studies.
Purpose.
The evaluation exists for one purpose only — to improve the level of studies in the Integrated Master's Programme in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. At the end of each semester, students are invited to evaluate the courses they have taken and the teachers who taught them.
Participation is voluntary. Responses are anonymous, and individual answers cannot be traced back to the student who gave them. The evaluation has no bearing on a student's grade or academic record.
The questionnaires.
Questionnaires are designed by the Quality Assurance Unit (MODIP) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to ensure that data is collected uniformly across the University and that the results can be analysed and compared at the level of the Faculty, the Department, and the Institution as a whole.
Within that common framework, the questionnaires can be partly differentiated to reflect the specific characteristics and needs of each academic unit and of each individual course. They are completed electronically through the MODIP information system.
The Internal Evaluation Team.
The evaluation is carried out under the responsibility of the Internal Evaluation Team (OMEA) of the programme, in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Unit (MODIP) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The Team consists of seven faculty members drawn from the five Schools that deliver the programme.
| School | Members |
|---|---|
| Physics | 2 |
| Chemistry | 2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 1 |
| Biology | 1 |
| Agriculture | 1 |
| Total | 7 |
The OMEA, together with the programme's administrative bodies, is responsible for promoting student participation in the evaluation, in line with the guidelines of the Quality Assurance Unit and the decisions of the AUTH Senate.
Acting on the results.
The OMEA monitors student participation in the evaluation through the MODIP Quality Management Information System, analyses the results, and reports them to the administrative bodies of the programme and of the respective academic units.
Those bodies, in collaboration with the OMEA, study the results and announce their findings. They may decide to publish a summary of the results — when this is judged necessary, and in any case only after the grades of the semester's courses have been announced, in accordance with the legislation on the protection of personal data.
The same bodies are then responsible for taking concrete action on the basis of the results: addressing any problems identified, and implementing improvements to the programme.