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Student evaluations summer 2025

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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. Term-on-term comparisons between summer 2025 and spring 2025 are confounded by the spring student evaluations only being distributed in online courses. The spring data does not include residential courses, with a few exceptions where a student chose to evaluate a residential course using the online evaluation form.  This report presumes familiarity with the student evaluations form in use at the institution and the results typically seen. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Number of student responses by term Means by evaluation section and term Instructor evaluations Click to enlarge The overall average for the prompts in the instructor evaluation section was 4.618. While this was an improvement from the 4.502 mean spring 2025, the s...

Student evaluations spring 2025

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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. Although the evaluation was only distributed to students in online courses, some of those students were also in residential courses. With the evaluation used in all courses fall 2024 there were 1360 responses. Spring 2025 has received 482 responses as of 13 May 2025. Edits: Where noted below, some charts and text were subsequently updated. The last day of regular classes was Monday 12 May 2025.  Edit 16 May 2025: Spring 2025 had a cumulative submission rate that differed significantly from spring 2024  Updated 5/19/2025 In spring 2024 and prior terms the bulk of evaluations were submitted by the last day of regular classes. The few submissions that arrived after the last day of classes made no significant difference in the results. Spring 2025 the pattern of submissions was vastly different. 46% ...