Blog Prompt for Week 12: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching

Using this week's readings as your guide, design a (formative) midterm course evaluation that you could use in a future class. Explain your assessment instrument to your blog readers, using the following questions as your guide:

• Why are you planning to ask these particular questions?
• How do these questions help you to assess your effectiveness as a teacher?
• How would your midterm course evaluation differ from a final course evaluation?
• How would you administer this evaluation (in-class survey, online survey, focus group, etc.)? Why?
• How would you make use of student feedback from this evaluation?

Commenters:

Suggest an addition or alteration to the midterm course evaluation provided by the blogger, either in terms of content (questions asked) or procedure (how student input is solicited).

Based on what you read for this week, how would this change alter/improve the feedback received from students?