By popular request, we’ve assembled some options for doing a mid-semester course evaluation. Feel free to sample, mix and match, and put together questions that best address what you hope to learn from your students.
In general we favor short evaluation forms that allow for rich student feedback. One example would be to use these two questions:
- What about the course is working well for you so far?
- What about the course is not working well for you so far?
Simple, to the point, and does not overly direct student responses. However, you may want more direct feedback about specific components of a course. Towards that end here are a few tools you may want to consult:
- Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers by Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross. You can check out of Gleeson Library for free. The authors provide lots of examples of ways to get student feedback. Many of their techniques take less than 2 minutes: meaning you could use some of these techniques once a week if you wanted.
- BYU offers some good suggestions for why to do mid-course evaluations. Check it out at the BYU evaluations page
- Here’s a list of sample questions provided by someone at Boston University: download Word document
- An example of a formal mid course evaluation used at another University (sorry, don’t remember exactly which institution right now): download PDF document
- The Chronicle of Higher Education recently had an article (October 15) on midterm evaluations. Check it out: CHE article link
That’s it for now. If you have other suggestions or resources please let us know and we’ll share the wealth with everyone. Email Tracy or Mathew at: cte@usfca.edu
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