While student course evaluations do provide valuable feedback to instructors, they’re also easily subject to student biases.
Near the end of each quarter, UW students receive multiple emails prompting them to fill out course evaluations. How those evaluations are implemented and utilized varies across departments and ...
The end of every Duke semester follows a familiar pattern: exams, papers and a flood of emails urging students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations aim to “help instructors identify ...
Two recent papers argue that using student surveys to evaluate professors is fundamentally flawed. At Denny's, diners are asked to fill out comment cards. How was your meal? Were you satisfied with ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with Penn faculty members about student course evaluations, with many noting significant room for improvement to the process. Undergraduate course reviews take place ...
A recent story on the problem of how teaching is evaluated struck a chord with many in higher education. As our reporting showed, student course evaluations — which are known to be flawed measures — ...
In the coming weeks, students will participate in a ritual as familiar as it is reviled: evaluating their instructors. Is there a better tool out there? If student input matters, how can it be made ...
For the first time, students will now complete end-of-the-semester course evaluations on the internet during their own time, rather than in class on paper. The aim of moving course evaluations online ...
Using an online survey, Santa Clara University Course Evaluations are conducted at the end of each quarter (Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer sessions). Faculty members receive a report for each class ...
Boston University develops a pilot program for online class evaluations. PHOTO BY LILIAN LI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF The Boston University provost-appointed Task Force on Evaluating Teaching initiated ...
After a semester of pop quizzes, all-nighters and 12-page research papers, college students have only one card to play against their professors: the course evaluation. While students may think they're ...
Student evaluations of teaching, or SETs, can provide a better understanding of what is working and what isn’t in classrooms. But gaining a “meaningful” understanding necessitates separating the ...