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Re: Are student evaluations useful?



On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Sam Sampere wrote:

Why not give them in the middle of the semester? Students know how well
they are doing by then. You can survey student concerns at the middle of
the semester in time to make changes before the course is over. You can
decide which student concerns are justified and which ones are not. Base
your changes on those which are justified. Anybody out there do that??

I did once, but only because I was teaching a class with a radically
different method than what anybody at Acadia University had ever used in a
Physics class before. So rather than get to the end of the term and risk
being crucified on the official evaluation I gave my own midterm to see
whether there was any strong desire from the students to go back to a
traditional method (there wasn't, quite the opposite in fact).

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