Questions tagged [course-evaluation]
Evaluations by students of the quality of the courses they take.
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Is monthly student feedback for evaluating university teaching justified?
In my country, universities offer programs like B.Tech and M.Tech, and teaching styles vary a lot. Some instructors focus on theory, others on hands-on work. Some rely mostly on objective questions, ...
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Is more than 20 hours per week too much workload to students?
I am checking my course evaluation for the last course I taught. Among all the statistics, one thing surprised me a bit is that there are about 50% of students who did the evaluation reported that ...
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Is It Appropriate to Use Class Time for Students to Fill Out Course Evaluations?
At my institution, students are encouraged to complete course evaluations online, yet typically only about one-third participate without additional prompting. Our administration strongly recommends ...
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Career impact of bad performance at visiting instructor position?
This is probably the last question I'm going to ask for a while. This can also be considered a follow up to this post I made two months ago: Could my visiting instructor position be terminated due to ...
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Who should write my "Teaching Focused" recommendation letter?
In grad school, I taught a couple classes and got good student evals. But no faculty member was really involved in overseeing my instruction.
Now I'm applying to faculty jobs, and I see a few of them ...
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How to convince my professor to let me pass when I got less than the required score in just one aspect of grading
There are various assessments and you need to get a grade of over 50% in each. i wasn’t able to do that in one of them (I came close) although my overall grade is good. How can I convince my teacher ...
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What are good custom questions to add to an end-of-course survey? [closed]
The purpose of end-of-course surveys is to have feedback on the course overall.
However, the survey is more of an evaluation of the instructor than the course itself. A successful course depends more ...
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Student keeps asking about attendance policy
I'm offering a new grad course this semester; this is my first teaching role. One student reached out to me four months ago, asking about the attendance policy. I did not have one because I had not ...
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Non existing instructor [closed]
I'm wondering if I am able to possibly have a lawsuit against the trade school I go to because they haven't provided us with an instructor for the last couple of months. I've gone to the campus ...
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Research indicating that student evaluations should be used for formative rather than summative purposes?
I had a conversation a while back in which someone referred to research indicating that student evaluations of faculty should ideally be used for formative rather than summative evaluation (i.e. in ...
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The more I improve the quality of my course, the worse the student evaluation becomes. Should I provide low quality lectures?
For almost 6 years, I have given courses on different CS topics at my university. This year, I decided to make my lectures and tutorials for a specific master course as perfect as possible, so I and ...
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Does an institution commit misconduct if it gives a low-quality online course to its graduate students?
I'm a graduate student in Physics. The past semester was online due to the current situation. We had a particular course named "Workshop course" which is about the metal shop where usually ...
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Effect of audit courses on graduate admissions if they are properly graded
I am a chemistry major and I want to shift towards the more computational and "data-driven" side of things later on. Towards that end, I have started taking relevant courses outside my major....
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Research request: faculty absences vs. student evaluations [closed]
I am looking for rigorous, empirical, and preferably but not necessarily peer-reviewed research on the relationship between faculty absences and student evaluations of teaching.
Background: Teachers ...
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Advice on grading assignments and exams during Covid Pandemic
I am TAing for an undergraduate course: "Data Structure and Algorithms". The course is attended by around 200 students consisting of second to fourth-year students of multiple disciplines.
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