Developing faculty members into better professors is one of the most important roles of any university. It is important to create and maintain engaging and meaningful professional development plans to ensure that faculty members have the necessary skills to teach college students. The role of faculty members at universities is far more complex than many …
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Unlocking Student Voices: How to Supercharge Course Evaluation Response Rates
Course evaluations are a valuable tool for instructors and institutions to gather feedback and make continuous improvements. However, low response rates can render that valuable feedback useless. Instructors often wonder how they can encourage students to actively participate and provide honest answers to their surveys. So let’s explore three effective strategies: ensuring confidentiality, offering incentives, …
Leveraging technology for blended class environments
By choosing the right technology tools, providing support, and creating an infrastructure conducive to blended learning, educational institutions can navigate this digital landscape and offer students a dynamic and effective learning experience. Technology is the backbone of blended classrooms and plays a pivotal role in ensuring its success. Administrators should focus on the following key …
Mastering Blended Learning: success strategies for educators and administrators
Perhaps you’re contemplating adopting a blended model into your curriculum. It’s never too early to prepare for the next term, so it’s worth exploring the foundation of blended learning, understanding its various models, and the crucial role of technology in this transformative educational approach.In the post pandemic years, blended learning, the fusion of in-person and …
Overcome your survey’s Achilles heel: question bias
Creating course evaluation surveys is an important part of assessing the learning experience of your students, and it’s important to design the survey in a way that will provide accurate and useful feedback. One of the major challenges in creating a successful course evaluation survey is avoiding question-related biases that can distort results. Here are …
Increasing Survey Response Rates
When conducting surveys, an important factor to consider is the survey response rate. A high response rate is vital for ensuring the survey produces both accurate results and valuable insight. Response rates are often impacted by a few key factors. Let’s look at three of the most important aspects for increasing response rates and how …
Designing Better Surveys: Avoiding Bias
We have all had experiences in the past of filling out surveys that ask us leading or biasedquestions, trying to shoehorn our responses to fit the survey’s desired outcome. However, course evaluation surveys are intended to provide valuable and constructive feedback to instructors and administrators in order to improve their courses for future students, but …
Modeling Positive Learning Habits
As a college professor, it is essential to create the optimal learning environment for your students. To do this, it is important to model positive learning habits in the classroom. The following are five ways to model positive learning habits in the classroom as a college professor. Collaboration and creativity Professors should strive to model …
Giving Actionable Advice to (Almost) Graduates
The transition from university to the professional workplace can be daunting for many graduating students. However, university faculty can provide them with tips, advice, and strategies to help prepare them for the next stage of their professional journey. Here are some actionable pieces of advice that can help make the transition go smoother. 1. Network: …
Boosting Course Evaluation Response Rates: Part II
In our last blog post, we discussed best practices for improving course evaluation response rates through instructor buy-in. However, it’s imperative that the process is as easy as possible for students. After all, they are the ones completing the evaluations. When creating a course evaluation plan, institutions should consider the immediacy of the evaluation, incentives …