Posts Tagged ‘student ratings’
September 12 - Boost Your Student Ratings by Creating Evidence of Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning
Student ratings can provide helpful and legitimate feedback. Unfortunately, all too often, students give very little time or thought to end-of-course evaluations, or they use them as an opportunity to make mean-spirited comments about the instructor. And, all things being equal, an instructor who teaches a challenging course will score lower than an instructor whose course is less rigorous.
June 28 - Measuring Learning: The Ultimate Teaching Evaluation
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Do you ever wonder what’s more important – educating your students or producing satisfied customers? When student ratings are the sole measurement of teaching assessment, many faculty start to wonder. This seminar will give you strategies for evaluating teacher effectiveness based on what really counts: student learning.
May 19 - Student Rating Forms and Definitions of Good Teaching
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
The close of the academic year brings with it the end of courses and the usual student ratings of those courses. Among many concerns related to this activity are those pertaining to the presence of certain items on the form. They ask irrelevant questions, given what and how we teach. Of course, that doesn’t seem to prevent students from offering evaluations in those areas.
December 3 - End-of-Course Ratings: Lessons from Faculty Who Improved
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation
Two researchers used end-of-course ratings data to generate a cohort of faculty whose ratings in the same course had significantly improved over a three-year period. They defined significant improvement as a 1.5-point increase on an 8-point scale. In this cohort, more than 50 percent of faculty had improved between 1.5 and 1.99 points, another 40 percent between 2.0 and 2.99 points, and the rest even more.
April 29 - Ratings: Working on the Cynicism
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation, Teaching Professor Blog
If you’re on a semester calendar, this academic year is winding down. As courses come to a close, it’s time for those end-of-course ratings which many of us administer with some cynicism.
January 7 - Two Ways to Make Student Feedback More Valuable
By: Rob Kelly in Faculty Evaluation
Unless they have a real problem with how the course was run, most students fill out end-of-course evaluations so quickly there’s often very little valuable information in them. Here are two ways that Wayne Hall, psychology professor at San Jacinto College in Texas, elicits helpful feedback on his courses:
August 25 - Learner-Centered Evaluation
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
“If the shift from the instructional to the learning paradigm is to have a lasting impact on education, it must influence not only how people think about teaching but also how teaching is evaluated. Evaluation is one of the primary means by which an institution conveys what is valuable and important to its members. If
August 11 - Sharing Really Bad Ratings
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation, Teaching Professor Blog
I had an email last week asking if I’d recommend sharing “really bad” rating results with students. The note came in response to last week’s blog post, which identified several benefits gained from sharing and discussing rating feedback with students.
June 18 - Students Question Value of End-of-Course Evaluations
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
We’ve visited this topic before: the quality of feedback students provide on those end-of-course ratings. Many students fail to take the evaluation process seriously because, unless they plan on taking another course with that professor, the feedback will provide little benefit to them even if, by chance, the professor decides to act on it.
April 23 - RateMyProfessors.com: More Honest than 'Official' Ratings?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
It doesn’t look as though the RateMyProfessors.com website is going away anytime soon. I was somewhat surprised to learn that it was actually launched in 1999.
