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Student Evaluations & Your Evaluation of Students

Tuesday, February 24th 2015 Marilyne Stains University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Goals for Today

• 1. Reflection on the student evaluations you collected

last semester:

• Usefulness
• Lessons learned about your teaching
• Extent of students’ buy-in to active learning strategies
• Strategies for student evaluations
• 2. Reflection on assessment practices:
• Differentiation between formative and summative assessments
• Exploration of types of formative assessment
• Alignment between learning activities and assessment practices

STUDENT EVALUATIONS

Sharing of Practices

• Is there a volunteer to share an evaluation tool that

was particularly informative?

• What was the format of the tool?
• How was it implemented?
• Why was it informative?

Lessons Learned about Our Teaching

Strengths

• What were the strengths

that students identified in your teaching?

Weaknesses

• What were the

weaknesses that students identified in your teaching?

• How do you plan to

address these weaknesses?

Students’ Buy-in

• In your student evaluations, were complaints limited to

the method, or did they also relate to other things such as the length of your assignments and exams, the clarity

• f your lecturing, or your lack of availability and/or respect

for students?

From http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/HangInThere.pdf

Students’ Buy-in

• Did you explain to the students why you were using the

method? (link: http://cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/video/ClickerExplainFlash.html)

Students’ Buy-in

• Did you use the new method long enough to overcome the

learning curve associated with it?

• If you got unsatisfactory student ratings, did you check

references on the method to see if you were implementing it adequately?

• In your midterm evaluations, did you specifically ask the

students whether they thought active learning (or whatever you were doing) was (a) helping their learning, (b) hindering their learning, or (c) neither helping nor hindering?

• Useful resource:
• http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Resist.html

From http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/HangInThere.pdf

Strategies for Student Evaluations

• Data collected from students
• Summative: Student Evaluation of Educational Quality
• Formative:
• Group Instructional Feedback Technique: page 1 of

http://ofd.ncsu.edu/docs/mcconnell-handout1-sept-24.pdf

• Peer observation
• Your Teaching and Learning Center can help
• A DBER faculty on your campus could be useful
• Have a meeting before and after the observation
• Use an observation protocol such as a short version of COPUS

STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT

The Role of Assessment

• When do your students get feedback on their level of

understanding of the topic?

• What do you do with the results of the assessment you

collect?

Entry Level

• Assesses what students currently know
• Helps teacher and students identify individualized learning goals
• Engages students in the learning
• Measures understanding BEFORE course or unit

Progress Monitoring

• Assesses progress toward learning goals
• Informs teacher and students of need for re-teaching/re-learning
• Measures understanding at points WITHIN course or unit

Summative

• Assesses whether learning outcomes have been achieved
• Measures understanding at END of course or unit

When to Assess?

FORMATIVE SUMMATIVE

Formative Assessment Resources

• Formative Assessment strategies:
• http://pages.uoregon.edu/tep/resources/newteach/fifty_cats.pdf
• Examples:
• Background Knowledge Probe or concept inventories
• Minute Papers
• Just-in-Time Teaching
• Peer Instruction – conceptual clicker questions
• Listening to student discussion in class
• In-class work / Tutorials
• Ranking / ordering tasks
• Think-pair-share

What to Assess?

• Alignment between

learning goals, assessment, and classroom activities is essential!

Learning Goal Formative Assessment: Entry Level Activities Formative Assessment: Progress Monitoring Summative Assessment

Next Meeting

• Wednesday, March 18, at 3:30 pm EST
• Topic: Share your favorite classroom activity!
• Are there other topics you like discussed in future events?