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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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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. What should I start doing?

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Teaching While Facing Gender Biases

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Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. In bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress, she reveals how white students often expect Black women to play the role of caretaker in their roles as professors.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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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."

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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. What should I start doing?

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

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In turn, we can immediately utilize new information to further our faculty assessment reports, professional development, academic writings, and research publication. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. When your class ends, write down the during-action reflection as soon as possible.