Course evaluations should play an important role in any college or university’s institutional research process. Students are asked to critique courses and instructors at the end of each semester, and their answers, compiling tons and tons of data, can be be used to affect necessary change. Those changes can be small, such as an instructor …
Tips for Designing Better Surveys
Making surveys understandable is critical in order to effectively collect reliable feedback from the respondent. If a survey is unclear or confusing, respondents are likely to provide inaccurate or incomplete responses. Additionally, surveys must be easy to navigate to encourage the respondent to provide quality and thoughtful responses. Understanding the survey content will help the …
Boosting Course Evaluation Response Rates: Part III
In our previous posts about improving course evaluation response rates, we discussed the importance of getting instructor buy-in and making the process easy for students. The last part of this series kind of goes hand-in-hand with the two previous posts: managing and automating emails sent to students and faculty. When creating a course evaluation plan, …
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 …
Boosting Course Evaluation Response Rates
Student response rates to college course evaluations are a vital measure of course quality and student satisfaction. It’s important for instructors to encourage students to complete their evaluations to ensure courses are held to the highest standards. For response rates to be maximally useful and provide meaningful data, it’s necessary to consider a variety of …
Over 130,000 Acres Adopted by SmartEvals
Endorsed by National Wildlife Federation “SmartEvals is endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation as a true enviornmental leader, committed to regrowing fish and game populations as well as fighting climate change.” Kit Fischer, National Wildlife Federation America’s public lands are places where people from all walks of life come together to escape into the natural …