RE: Laboratory Instructor/Course Evaluations

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

In our department, the lab sections fill out the exact same form that the 
lecture sections fill out.  And yes many of the questions do not seem 
appropriate to the laboratory experience.  Part of the evils of standardized 
forms.

Joel
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From: Jerry Hester
To: QuistO; RAUBERJ; phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
Cc: Tap-L listserv
Subject: Laboratory Instructor/Course Evaluations
Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 10:26AM

We have just been hit with the Instructional Development and
Effectiveness Assessment (IDEA) evaluations.  The assessment and the way
the administaration are looking at the results seems invalid when
applied to the physics laboratories.

What methods do you use for evaluating the effectiveness of physics labs
and instructors for those of you with physics labs which are part of
your regular physics course i.e. Our students enroll in the General
Physics courses which have lecture, recitation, and lab components.

Do any of you have standardized evaluations for labs which you have
students fill out on the last day?


Thanks,
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Jerry Hester                      Email:    jhester@mtu.edu
Dept. of Physics                  Phone:    (906) 487-2273
Michigan Technological University Fax:      (906) 487-2933
1400 Townsend Drive 
Houghton, Michigan  49931-1295
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