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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Or, “previously, students questioned my knowledge.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Or, “previously, students questioned my knowledge.

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

Faculty Focus

Thus, integrating an anonymous, mid-semester feedback survey would allow student feedback to guide instructional changes before the conclusion of the semester when course evaluations are typically sent out. Write each question so it can receive its own response. What should I continue doing? What should I stop doing?

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

Faculty Focus

Thus, integrating an anonymous, mid-semester feedback survey would allow student feedback to guide instructional changes before the conclusion of the semester when course evaluations are typically sent out. Write each question so it can receive its own response. What should I continue doing? What should I stop doing?

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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. Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook.

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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. You can prompt some discussions with such questions as “Am I the only one who thinks the term ‘color deficiency’ is demeaning?”

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

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You can pose a question for a future column here. It was time for me to begin asking some questions and learning more about this new environment. Regularly answering the question surrounding why we teach in the first place can build up greater protections against those factors that may detract from our assurance.

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