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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. They always did. The students hated me.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. They always did. The students hated me.

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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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Throughout, the playbook explores themes of providing students with support in online courses, making such courses equitable, and the importance of continuously improving them. Course Evaluation Instructors should also grade themselves, so to speak.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

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2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.

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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Traditional end-of-course evaluations do your current students no good. A clear, upfront communication policy stipulating response times can be very helpful for avoiding misunderstandings.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

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2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. References Chapman, D.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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And it stresses that staff should be protected against “the punitive use of negative teaching evaluations during the period of the disruption.” That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”