1.3 Listening to your Students

1.3 Listen to your Students

"Evaluations of my teaching help me to assess whether I am effectively meeting my pedagogical goals. Students provide feedback in a variety of ways: midterm evaluations, final discursive evaluations, formal end-of-semester University surveys, informal in-class feedback, and informal feedback provided via email, Skype or during office hours. Multiple formats ensure I am able to continually make adjustments to the course in response to student needs."

Kimberly McKee, Ph.D.

  Watch/Read

1. Cornell Center For Teaching Excellence: Making the Most of Mid-semester Evaluations Links to an external site. (0:59)
2. John Jordi, Ph.D., University of Florida: Quick Guide on Getting Useful Student Feedback on Courses Download Quick Guide on Getting Useful Student Feedback on Courses
   
   

Diving Deeper

• Washington University in Saint Louis' The Teaching Center. Incorporating Midterm Course Evaluations Links to an external site.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License Links to an external site..
• Duquesne University's Center for Teaching Excellence: Benefits, Impact and Process of Early Course Evaluations Links to an external site..
• University of California Berkeley. Tips for making effective use of students’ mid-semester feedback. Division of Undergraduate Education. Download Tips for making effective use of students’ mid-semester feedback. Division of Undergraduate Education.
• Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching Midterm Evaluation Forms
  • Mid-Term Evaluation Form A Download Mid-Term Evaluation Form A
  • Mid-Term Evaluation Form B Download Mid-Term Evaluation Form B
  • Mid-Term Evaluation Form C Download Mid-Term Evaluation Form C
• Cornell University's Center for Teaching Excellence. Student Evaluation, how can you increase the response rate to online evaluations Links to an external site.. Links to an external site.
• Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Student Evaluations of Teaching. Links to an external site.
• Mckee, D. (2015, February 12). Eliciting and Using Feedback from Students. Teaching in Higher Ed. 
• Felder, R., & Brent, R. (2004). How to evaluate Teaching Links to an external site.. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 200-202.