Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Years’ worth of courses lie ahead. They always did.

Course Evaluations 121

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 121

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Years’ worth of courses lie ahead. They always did.

Course Evaluations 109

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. While being aware of the ways gender and other forms of bias impact students’ perceptions of us, as teachers we do need to be cautious not to exasperate the challenges.

Teaching 166

Teaching Attention Course Evaluations Writing 166

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

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. What should I start doing?

Feedback 101

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 101

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. Cheryl Bonsall, a former student in the course, says that delivering her responses by video rather than writing "made me more accountable for my words and my message."

Instructors 151

Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 151

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. This type of reflection is called after-action or on-action. we say what we do) and our theory in action (i.e. what we actually do).

Lecturing 54

Lecturing Faculty Development Laboratory Knowledge 54

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

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. What should I start doing?

Feedback 89

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 89