SWF

SWF stands for “Standard Workload Formula”.

OPSEU/SEFPO provides a thorough overview of the SWF in this article: SWF – Standard Workload Formula

Evaluation Factor

The Evaluation Factor is a formula built into the SWF that allocates the amount of time the professor is assigned to evaluate assessments in a course. There are 3 separate types of evaluation:

• Essay or Project
• Routine or Assisted
• In-Process 

Professor Kevin Mackay’s excellent SWF Primer: Evaluation Factors (Part One)  and SWF Primer: Evaluation Factors (Part Two) provides a good understanding how evaluation factors work.

Want to see a sample SWF?  Check out an annotated SWF from Fanshaw

Or try your hand making a SWF with an Excel SWF Calculator.