Teachers Ranked as Excellent from Fall 1993 through Summer 2017

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

Usage

excellent_teachers

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

Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider

Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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