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Bob Rowan

Should Students Evaluate Their Teachers? | Edutopia - 67 views

www.edutopia.org/...valuation-teachers-ben-johnson

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shared by Bob Rowan on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • online survey of 1,883 students from 10 European countries
  • what the students expect
  • what they experience from their instructors
  • ...21 more annotations...
  • looked at three characteristics
  • personality
  • classroom environment
  • teaching style
  • gap of 35 percent between what students expected and what professors were able to deliver
  • professors did best at being "confident" and "rational"
  • worst at being "inspiring"
  • wanted inspiring teachers that are approachable
  • clear idea of student requirements
  • good communicators
  • be alert to struggling students
  • student evaluations prove to be the most effective at providing specific information for formative evaluations
  • should be an important part of teacher evaluations
  • Informally, teachers are graded all the time
  • you could administer a formal climate survey
  • At the end of every test or quiz, put in a few non-graded questions
  • What did you like most about learning this topic
  • What was most difficult
  • could the teacher have done a better job
  • What would you recommend to improve this course? What do you want to see more of in this class? Less of?"
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  • Bob Rowan on 09 May 12
     
    The author reflects on student evaluations, citing a study that asked students what they expect from their professors (also talks about how it applies to K-12 schools)
JD Pennington

Diigo in College/University - 254 views

Some questions: Is it possible to get an RSS feed of group annotated links that are no longer live pages, but are instead highlighted static pages? This way I can get a feed of a the links that ...

education diigo

started by Bill Guinee on 10 Apr 09 9 follow-ups, last by JD Pennington on 15 Jul 09
Katt Blackwell-Starnes

using diigo with students - 569 views

I'm interested to see where this conversation goes next. There's some great information and pointers here. Thanks for the blog link, Andy. I'll be keeping up with what you're writing. In just ove...

diigo students bookmarking

started by Andy Whiteway on 16 Mar 09 8 follow-ups, last by Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 11 Oct 09
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