Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I add my own clarifications and reflections on what the comments mean along with what I thought worked well and didn’t in the course.

Course Evaluations 122

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I add my own clarifications and reflections on what the comments mean along with what I thought worked well and didn’t in the course.

Course Evaluations 111

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 111

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Suddenly shifting college courses online demands a lot of effort from everyone involved. Andersen says. “I

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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Evaluation 172

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. The MSF asks students simple, direct questions focused on the teaching and learning process in their current course.

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Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. The MSF asks students simple, direct questions focused on the teaching and learning process in their current course.

Instructors 91

Instructors Feedback Evaluation Students 91