Just a quick PSA that course evaluation season is upon us. Be sure to share the following with your students if you haven’t:

Smartphone: www.hunter.cuny.edu/mobilete
Computer: www.hunter.cuny.edu/te

As I’m sure you know, online course evaluations have become a very problematic instrument for self-evaluation and especially Department- or College-level evaluation due to the extremely low response rates.

I give students special encouragement to give qualitative feedback rather than just the “number scale” questions and do indeed learn from those comments.

When I’m on my game, I also share my own instrument, usually a simple Google Form-based questionnaire. This term, since I’ve been running an experiment with “contract grading,” I combined some “how did you perform in the course” questions with some “how did I perform in the course” questions with some “what did you think about this whole ‘contract grading’ thing” questions. Here it is, and of course feel free to copy/adapt.

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