Student evaluations fall 2024
Student evaluations of instructor, course, and course materials provide guidance for the institutions on areas of relative strengths and areas where there may be room for improvement. The top line summary is perhaps best captured by looking at the top five areas of strength and the bottom five areas of weakness. Leading strengths include awareness of the student learning outcomes, instructor preparation, and clarity of the syllabi. Trailing weaknesses include the perpetually low score for textbook access, the always anomalous overall effectiveness of the instructor (this score is always significantly lower than the other metrics in this section of the student evaluations), and regularity of student-instructor contact. This report presumes familiarity with the student evaluations form in use at the institution. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Students dominantly mark strongly agree or agree which we...