Purpose: FCEs are used to improve the quality of teaching and learning at Carnegie Mellon through feedback to both individual faculty members and promotion committees.

Responses to the FCEs provide information on students’ perceptions of their engagement, learning outcomes, the instructor’s behavior, and course activities, and help guide changes in future iterations of the course and/or the instructor’s teaching.

Responses also serve as one measure of the quality of faculty member’s teaching that is used to evaluate faculty for promotion and tenure.