Timeline for How to react to a student who provides very critical comments about your teaching in a student evaluation survey?
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| Dec 12, 2016 at 23:38 | comment | added | smci | Apart from this one student, what did your other student evaluations generally say? "If [my evaluation] continues like this, I will no longer be able to continue teaching there." Really? Just due to one student? I find that hard to believe. Did you check with other staff? | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 0:31 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 17:49 | comment | added | donjuedo | I upvoted @neuronet 's comment, because the same thing happened to me in an office environment. Someone wrote a very strong opinion in the company (AT&T) weekly newsletter, and signed my name instead of his. | |
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 15:22 | answer | added | C_Al | timeline score: -3 | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 14:41 | answer | added | Steve Jessop | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Pharap | @O.R.Mapper First time I've seen it used. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 14:15 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Pharap: I think this particular abbreviation has been around in dictionaries for decades ;) | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 14:13 | comment | added | Pharap | @O.R.Mapper Evidently I'm not up to date with all this modern text speak. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 14:02 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | You can't please all of the students all of the time. If every single review were negative, that would be cause for self-reflection on your teaching method. One negative review? That's just someone you weren't able to reach, didn't click with, or even someone who just plain didn't like your class for their own reasons. There will be others (sadly). Do you best and remind yourself that you are doing your best and that all of your other students feel that you helped them. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Pharap: sth is a common abbreviation for something (which has meanwhile been expanded in the question text). | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | Aloha | @zibadawatimmy From a student's point of view, you're correct. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 11:52 | answer | added | Armfoot | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 10:26 | answer | added | Meni Rosenfeld | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 9:28 | comment | added | Pharap | What is "written sth horrible" supposed to mean? I think you made a typing mistake. | |
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 7:08 | answer | added | Nick | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 19:45 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Student evaluations are very common, and where I've taught it was standard to give the student the option of signing their name (and those comments where made part of the permanent file, I think). Also, I have some alarm bells about a teacher of English having at least 4 misspellings or grammar errors in their original post. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | neuronet | Are you sure she wrote it? Maybe someone else wrote her name at the top? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @NajibIdrissi: It's common to require, say one day each semester, a colleague to sit in your class and have a discussion with you and file a report on what they saw. This has been required at community colleges in two different U.S. states where I've taught. My current college is a lot more formal about, and I'm appreciative of that. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 18:06 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | Maybe I'm mistaken with this, but every time I see the title of this question, I stumble over it and wonder whether it is supposed to be ranting instead of rating. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 17:58 | answer | added | Ted Bigham | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 10:42 | comment | added | user9646 | @Nicholas How does peer evaluation work for teaching? Are there other peers in the room when you teach? (Please don't read that as a dismissing comment -- I'm a new grad student who has never taught yet. It's a genuine question.) | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 6:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/677018735761301504 | ||
| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:40 | comment | added | Nicholas | You should also be aware that student evaluations -- either positive or negative -- are not the be-all and end-all of the quality of your teaching. Other metrics include peer evaluation and self-reflection. Peer evaluation is something I've found particularly useful in my teaching. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | You might find useful some answers here: Anonymous Student Feedback: Moving forward from abusive comments. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 19:05 | answer | added | Captain Emacs | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:43 | answer | added | ff524 | timeline score: 55 | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:42 | comment | added | user2326844 | well, I am thinking a lot about it. During the past days, I am thinking about what I could have done wrong in their class all of the time, and I cannot find anything to deserve such reaction. I do not mind if this "one" student hates me. The common problem in this institute is the constant comparison they make among the teachers. And, having a nuisance like her in the class is enough to make the rest negative. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:32 | answer | added | Abhay Goyal | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:08 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | I'm surprised the student feedback wasn't anonymous. In any case, don't act rashly. Pretty much every (college) teacher has to accept that there's always going to be at least one person who unequivocally hates them. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 18:04 | history | asked | user2326844 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |