Are you interested in helping transform the student course evaluation process to maximize our students’ voices and help minimize bias in the evaluation process? Are you willing to engage your students in a mid-quarter evaluation that allows you to get feedback in time to potentially make changes to benefit your current students? If so, join us in our quarter-long pilot of a mid-quarter evaluation that may become part of our formal course evaluation process.
Mid-quarter evaluations allow instructors to “check the pulse” of the class, gain valuable insights regarding students’ learning experience and identify changes that could be made to enhance that experience. Many of you already administer informal mid-quarter evaluations in your classes. What if we made mid-quarter student evals a part of our formal evaluation process? This project is led by the Faculty Evaluation Workgroup – now a part of the ATD initiative – in collaboration with the Faculty Commons. This workgroup is innovating ways to decrease the bias and increase the usefulness of faculty evaluations: student, self, and peer. Your participation in this project can help us determine our final recommendations.
Participation in this pilot project requires the following:
- Attend a project overview meeting on Thursday, 1/13 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. via Zoom. The meeting will be recorded for those who cannot attend.
- Commit to administering an anonymous student evaluation during weeks 5-6 of winter quarter.
- Commit to reviewing the data and consider adapting your course for the second half of the quarter based on your students’ feedback.
- Complete a reflection on this process.
1 Meeting: Thursday, January 13 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. via Zoom.
20 seats available this winter: Register here to participate!
Stipend for completing all parts of the project: $150
For more information, reach out to Jen Anderson, Lindsay Haney, Tonya Estes or Harlan Lee, project leads.
Last Updated January 13, 2022