Questions tagged [course-evaluation]
Evaluations by students of the quality of the courses they take.
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How to compile "Comprehensive summary of teaching evaluations," given long teaching record
A job posting for an assistant professor job at a liberal arts college in the United States requires that I include a "Comprehensive summary of teaching evaluations" with my application.
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To share or not to share (your student evals)?
It's end of term. If you're teaching faculty, it means you've gotten your student evals. We can't be the only ones trying to decide whether, how or how much to share our student evals, e.g., by ...
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Bad student evaluations
So I just read my evaluations for this past semester, and they are absolutely horrible. The worst I've ever gotten. I put so much effort into teaching, but almost nobody thinks I did a good job. Do ...
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Are course evaluation forms REALLY confidential? [closed]
Someone I know has recently submitted a course evaluation form in which he complained about how poorly the unit was organized and that the lecturer didn't seem to be well prepared for the class. ...
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My professor and chair of the department traced back a supposedly anonymus course evaluation to me. How to proceed?
At my large American university, we have the opportunity to fill out course evaluations. They are not mandatory and are allegedly anonymous. I wrote a negative review for Dr. Smith's course. I stand ...
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Large, non-random proportion of students not invited for evaluation of a course
In the (not so distant) past I have received the student evaluations for my course. The evaluation was mediocre, something that surprised me since I thought I had good connection with the students ...
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How to get teaching evaluations for a course as a TA / Co-instructor
Some of the faculty-level academic jobs require teaching evaluations in the submission package, which gives rise to a need to acquire teaching evaluations.
My question is then, how can one obtain ...
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My students compliment my teaching and say they now approach the subject with newfound enthusiasm. Can I ask them to put this in writing?
I'm a beginner instructor teaching undergraduates, and I seem to have their attention and am working hard to inspire them. Recently several of them have told me that they now approach the subject ...
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What happens when a professor makes damaging comments about another in front of students?
I have had some very negative comments made about me by a small number of students, which my institution is taking seriously enough to terminate my employment.
I know that a particular colleague has ...
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How to propose alteration of study subjects in college?
I've been studying and working with Game Development for quite a while and I can't help to notice that I'm not using anything that was presented to me in college.
My college is focused in gaming ...
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How to write better teaching evaluations?
As an undergraduate student in the United States, it's evaluation season. While I understand that evaluations are supposed to help the course staff improve for future semesters; poorly worded ...
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What can I do about nasty comments in student evaluations that could cause me to get fired?
I recently received the results of student evaluations. After my colleague (who is qualified to make such determinations) observed one of my lectures and said it went very well, a small group of ...
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Is it useful to add excerpts from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement?
Is it useful to add excerpts from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement included in a faculty application?
A fair amount of teaching statements seem to contain some, but since excerpts are ...
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Can anonymized teaching evaluations be made public in the United States? [duplicate]
Can anonymized teaching evaluations be made (legally) publicly available by the teacher who received them in the United States? For example, I have seen a fair amount of teaching statement containing ...
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Proper way to include student evaluations for job application?
I've seen a handful of academic teaching jobs request that the applicant send "copies of student evaluations" as part of the application.
How exactly is this supposed to be done?
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Examination review courses and the (wrong) motivation of participants [closed]
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Our faculty offers special courses after the end term exams and before the resit for students who failed the first attempt and/or did not participate in the final exam. ...
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How do we solve the problem about bad behavior (unfair evaluation) in lab?
My undergraduate student told me that he had some problems when he attended the lab session in our department. This lab session is mandatory and one of the components of the course evaluation.
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Alternatives to relying solely on student evaluations of teaching to help administrators more accurately assess teaching effectiveness
This question is about my attempt to give the administrators at my institution some feedback on how to better help them assess faculty teaching effectiveness.
My institution is soliciting input from ...
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Why does a mathematics department want student evaluations of a famous professor?
If a professor is very famous for his research and belongs to the most prestigious academies of science for his lifetime work, I find it unusual that the math department would ask us to evaluate him. ...
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Does better learning affect teaching evaluations? If so, how?
Arum and Roksa (p. 7) say:
Research on course evaluations by Valen Johnson has convincingly demonstrated that "higher grades do lead to better course evaluations" and "student course evaluations ...
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How bad do your teaching evaluation scores have to be before you should leave them off your resume?
I got a 4.0 out of 5.0 on my teaching evaluations. The average grade in my department is a 4.5. Should I put this on my CV/resume?
For reference, I am a PhD student and this is the first class I've ...
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Is there a way to add more ECTS to my degree?
I have a bachelor's degree in Oenology and Beverage Technology and I would like to apply for a master's degree in Brewing Science and Technology. However, my bachelor's ECTS in mathematics and ...
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University policy of publishing student course evaluations: Prevalence and pros and cons
These days it is very common to have some course evaluation towards the end of a course, in which students respond to standardized questions on a numerical scale (e.g. between 1 and 5) and can ...
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What do polarized student evaluation results say about my teaching?
I taught my first class last quarter. The results for evaluations are very polarized. The raw data shows that my scores are either very high or very low for a majority of items. That implies some ...
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What to do about negative teaching evaluations during job interviews?
This past year I taught two undergraduate freshman-level required religion courses (one in the Fall and one in the Spring) and the teaching evaluations from students were rather average-to-poor. These ...
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Anonymous Student Feedback: Moving forward from abusive comments
As a relatively new lecturer, I'm always looking for ways to improve my teaching. After doing a bit of research around how different lecturers etc approach student feedback, a number had stated that ...
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How to deal with poor teaching evaluations on academic job market?
I will enter the academic job market after having received poor teaching evaluations for my first and only independently taught class. Some of the criticisms were well founded, and I am trying my best ...
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Is there an advantage in including quotes from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement?
For context, I am a mathematics PhD student, and I am writing up my teaching statement. In looking up examples of teaching statements, I saw that one of them included quotes from students from ...
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Who reads teaching evaluations?
At the end of each semester, usually a month before final exams, my school (in the US) distributes teaching evaluations. What people will read these? Do people only see these after the final grades ...
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How much can/should quotes from student evaluations be edited when preparing a teaching statement?
I'm writing a teaching statement and want to include quotes from student evaluations. How much can/should I edit these (for grammar)?
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How can one learn from poor teaching evaluations?
I teach at a large R1 state university, and I just received my teaching evaluations for Fall 2013. Usually I get excellent evaluations, but this time my evaluations for Calculus II were an unpleasant ...
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Do teaching evaluations lead to lower standards in class?
In the somehow recent past, teaching evaluations have become obligatory in many universities/departments in Germany. I've also heard that sometimes these evaluations are used in formal ways to decide ...
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How to submit 'teaching evaluations' for a job application?
Some jobs ask you to submit 'teaching evaluations'. Assuming the school doesn't have any preference for how I submit the materials, my issue is that I literally have hundreds of teaching evaluations - ...
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As a teaching assistant, how important are student evaluations?
I have seen a number of résumés of doctoral students, but only a few of them listed their evaluation scores when presenting their teaching experience.
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