Question re online course evaluations

Submitted by slamar on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:50am.

I asked recently about experiences people have had with doing online
course evaluations, and didn't receive any answers.

Is anyone at all having students evaluate profs this way, or did my
question just get upstaged by the funny cat video?

We have a program that ought to replace the paper evaluations done during
the last class, but are wondering how to get students to sign on. We are
thinking the only practical way would be to hold their grades until they
evaluate the course. Any opinions even if you haven't actually tried
this?

Thanks,

Sandy Lamar
Computer Services Reference Librarian
New England School of Law
154 Stuart St.
Boston, MA 02116
slamar@nesl.edu
617-422-7331

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RE: Question re online course evaluations
Submitted by pbirch on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:07pm.

[teknoids] Question re online course evaluations

We do the 10-15 minutes at the end of class thing with an online
form (devised, I believe, by somebody across campus), and also advise the
students that they can login and do it at a later time if they prefer.  I
don’t know if the wait-until-later option factored in, but I was surprised
at the low response rate (< 50%) this past semester among students in the
course I taught. I chalk this up to “If you can’t say anything nice…” 
My own intuition is that an over-strict policy of mandatory responses could
significantly pollute the results.

 

Paul

 

 

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I
don't know anything about the technology involved, but this sounds like a good
idea.  Why not just give the students the same 10 or 15 minutes in class
to complete the evaluation, but have them use their laptops to log on and
complete them on line.  You may not get 100% but you never really get 100%
completion of the paper evaluations either.  I don't know that you need a
more draconian penalty to enforce completion, at least for standard larger
classes.

 

You could
give students the choice of completing the eval on line or on paper, but then
you would have to have someone enter the paper data into the same
database--this would be important if there are a significant number of students
in the class who don't have laptops to bring to class.

 

 

 

Bob
Seibel

California
Western School of Law

href="mailto:rfs@cwsl.edu">rfs@cwsl.edu

619
525 1445

 

 

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