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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. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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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. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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

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When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Maria Andersen, adjunct professor Some of these concerns are addressed in the COVID-19 response principles that the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors issued on March 13 to guide colleges. Adjuncts’ current worries aren’t limited to professional matters, of course.

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

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When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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I wish there were better ways of sharing my concerns other than at the end of the semester when you fill out those [teacher evaluations]. Do students take those evaluations seriously or do faculty take those evaluations seriously? I'm sure all three of you have some degree of experience with this.

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

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But I suspect that one characteristic that would be common among all the stories is that these influential teachers had confidence in the importance of the content they were teaching, if not also some belief in their teaching abilities after having built up their capacity over some time.

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