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Appendix A: Selected Student Evaluation Instruments
Appendix A: Selected Student Evaluation Instruments
Pages 139-144
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Students are in a unique position to comment on their satisfaction with a course and the impact of the instruction on their own learning. However, they are not subject matter experts, and therefore are not in a position to make judgments about the currency or accuracy of course content.
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Information garnered from interviews also can be more helpful to the instructor when the interviewing is done by an instructional improvement specialist, if available, or a truste(1 colleague (Centra, 19931. Current Students: Measures of [earning An extremely useful and increasingly common approach to evaluating teaching effectiveness is to measure students' knowle(lge or skills at the beginning of a course or unit of the course and again after some bo(ly of material has been covered in class.
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Thus, questions about specific concepts the students wail have been expected to learn can be included in pre/posttesting. Alternatively, as part of their evaluation of program effectiveness, academic departments can develop assessment instruments that can be used to examine whether students have SELECTED STUDENT EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS learned well the knowledge and skills they need to move through a vertically structured departmental curriculum.
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A 10-percentile difference between instructors generally does not represent a practical distinction. For personnel decisions, emphasize global evaluations and estimates of learning Overall ratings of instruction or of a course tend to correlate highly with measured student achievement more highly than ratings dealing with different teaching styles and presentation methods.
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Another approach is to administer the final examination early SELECTED STUDENT EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS and then require students to attend a session where they receive their graded examination and are asked to complete the evaluation form. This approach allows students to review the instructor's comments on their final examination, making the examination a more important component of the overall learning experience in the course.
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The use of student rating forms may reach a point of (liminishing returns. If they are overused, neither students nor instructors wail give them the level of attention required for fair evaluation of teaching or continued professional (development by the faculty member in question.
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