Category: SmartEvals Blog

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …