Posts Tagged ‘student evaluations’
January 22 - Course and Instructor Evaluations: Misconceptions and Realities
By: Patti Shank, PhD, CPT in Faculty Evaluation
If evaluation sounds good in theory but feels bad in practice, it may be that you or others are operating under some common misconceptions.
July 22 - Strategies for Preventing and Correcting Poor Faculty Evaluations
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Online instructors receive poor evaluations for any number of reasons, including lack of experience, inadequate training, and poor communication skills. Other times, the poor reviews are more reflective of the course design than the instructor who’s teaching the course. That distinction is unimportant to the students.
June 11 - Voucher Points Help Build Student Engagement
By: Melvin Billik in Effective Teaching Strategies
I happened on the idea of giving voucher points accidentally, but over the years they’ve proven quite valuable in promoting active student involvement. It started when I was still teaching math in high school, and a student came up with a particularly clever method of solving a mathematics problem. As a reward, I wrote him an IOU good for one point on any of my tests. A few months later it happened again, and then later on I gave out a third voucher point. That semester, I received very positive comments about the practice on my student evaluations. Students requested that I “do voucher points more often.”
June 10 - Faculty Evaluations: Those Hurtful Student Comments
By: Glenn Hartz, PhD in Teaching Careers
At most places now, students are given the opportunity to evaluate instructors at the end of each class. Along with standardized items, students are invited to offer open-ended narrative comments on the course and instructor. Sometimes the comments are nice; sometimes negative but constructive; sometimes negative and destructive.
October 5 - The Wizard of Oz: A Metaphor for Teaching Excellence
By: Donna Bowles in Effective Teaching Strategies, Philosophy of Teaching
When reflecting on my experiences as a college professor, several themes from The Wizard of Oz often surface. This well-known story provides a metaphorical view of behaviors that I strive to achieve in my ongoing work with students. In the familiar foursome’s journey to the Emerald City, I see characteristics necessary for teaching excellence—the need to improve, fine-tune and revamp as we travel with students through courses and curricula.
