SIS-ValDidat: a Statistical Information System for evaluating university teaching.

Besides collecting, elaborating and transmitting the data requested by the Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), the VALMON Group of the University of Florence has worked over recent years at the definition and implementation of information tools capable of satisfying the cognitive requirements of structures and university subjects therein, and of present and potential users of the offered services (university students and young people who intend enrolling in the University). Among other activities, since the 2000/01 academic year the VALMON Group has collected and elaborated the opinions of university students concerning the educational course they have undertaken. Starting from the 2005/06 academic year, the traditional method for the distribution of final evaluations has been substituted by an innovative Statistical Information System based on web pages: the Sistema Informativo Statistico per la Valutazione della Didattica universitaria – SISValDidat). This system conforms to the most recent standards of accessibility and user-friendliness of web programs and guarantees immediate usage of the information.