Student Feedback

WWU Course Evaluations

Course Evaluations, WWU Office of Institutional Effectiveness - facilitates both in-person and online course evaluations.

Analyzing Student End of Course Written Comments, The Scholarly Teacher. Helpful tips on how to approach reading student evaluations at the end of the quarter. Included are some discussion questions to jog your thought process.
Early Course Evaluation, Center for Teaching Excellence, Duquesne University. Three different types of surveys that can be implemented with ease early in the quarter to get a general idea of how students feel about your course.
Making Sense of Student Evaluations, Greg Reihman, Lehigh University. Eight suggestions for professors for how to approach student evaluations in a way that makes them more effective overall, and what key ideas to try to take away from them.
Sample Evaluation Questions and Topics, Learning Design and Technology, Michigan State University. Over 100 potential questions to ask students for formative feedback, all broken up in over a dozen distinct categories ranging from 'office hours' to 'course materials.'
Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness, Penn State University. List of 177 items to choose from in building a student feedback form.

Evaluating Teaching through SGID: Small Group Instruction Diagnosis, Gloria Floren, Letters Department, MiraCosta College. Information on SGID, includes ways that the gathered information can be used both formally and informally.
Small Group Instructional Diagnosis, Center for Faculty Development, Seattle University — When to use SGID and the 4 steps of how it works
Early Course Feedback: Focus Groups, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University. Why/when to use a focus group for feedback, how to properly conduct one, and considerations for running one (prior, during, and afterwards).

Optional Midterm Feedback Form, Office of Educational Assessment, UW. Sample Midterm Feedback Form used for remote courses using scaled and open-ended prompts.
Incorporating Midterm Course Evaluations The Teaching Center, Washington University in St. Louis. Breaks evaluations into a three-step process (designing, administering, and responding) and has details on how to best complete each one. Includes sample evaluations for both lecture and seminar-style classes.
Formative and Summative Assessments, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale. Outlines the difference between formative and summative assessments, defines each, and provides examples and suggestions for how to utilize both.