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Course Evaluations

Course Evaluations

074At Kansas State University student evaluations of courses are important. By gathering evidence of teaching effectiveness, departments and deans are able to make informed and objective decisions about retention, promotion, tenure and pay increases. The most important benefit of student evaluations is the feedback the evaluations provide directly to instructors, so they can refine their courses and teaching practices to provide students with better learning experiences.

Sometimes students do not know how to properly complete the TEVALS in terms of providing quality, constructive feedback that help instructors to improve their teaching (e.g., they say “this class sucked” or “this class is awesome”).  In an effort to improve student awareness of how to complete TEVALS, we would like for you to respond to the following QUESTIONS:

 1.      Do you receive quality, constructive feedback about how to improve your class from your students?  
1 a. If you do receive quality, constructive feedback, have you applied some (or all) of this feedback to improve your teaching? Why/Why not?  Do you have recommendations for how we can improve the quality, constructive feedback that students provide to instructors?
1 b. If you do not receive  quality, constructive feedback from students, what can we do to encourage students to offer quality, constructive feedback to instructors?

About Monica E. Vaca-Cárdenas

Mónica Elva Vaca-Cárdenas is a Ph.D student at Kansas State University in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She has also been the Graduate Research Assistant at the Teaching and Learning Center of the Kansas State University for the last two years. Monica is from Ecuador, where she obtained the following qualifications: Doctor in Languages, mention International Cooperation, Diploma in teaching (EFL) English as a Foreign Language and a Master degree in Linguistics applied to EFL. Teaching experience: Monica has been teaching English as a Foreign Language for fifteen years in Ecuador, at elementary, high school and University level; and teaching Spanish for a couple of semesters in the International Student Center of K-State.

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