Recruiting and retaining top-notch faculty staff is a critical challenge for universities today. The success and reputation of an institution largely depend on the quality and dedication of its faculty members. However, the competition for talented educators is fierce, and once they’re on board, retaining them can be equally challenging. Thankfully, there are strategies for …
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Translating change into success: KPIs
Measuring the success of college courses after analyzing the feedback from course evaluations is incredibly important, as it allows professors to make valid improvements to their courses. The first step to measuring the success of a college course, is to understand the course objectives. Next, you should consider key performance indicators (KPIs) to establish new …
How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Your University’s Effectiveness
Universities have increasingly embraced new technologies in the realms of academic and administrative processes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving to be an effective tool to carry out complex tasks more efficiently and with greater accuracy than human intervention. While some are wary of automating certain processes, the advantages of incorporating AI to handle institutional research …
“Future proofing” your faculty: professional development
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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: …
SmartEvals is empowering beyond the classroom
With college campuses undergoing a great deal of change due to the pandemic, it is important to use innovative tools to improve campus life. SmartEvals has innovative tools that can be used to evaluate beyond just classroom performance. They can also be used to measure quality of laboratory and other facilities available on campus, and …
How Schools Benefit from Course Evaluations
In the dynamic landscape of higher education, ensuring effective teaching and learning experiences is paramount. To achieve this goal, educational institutions rely on various tools and strategies, one of which is the collection and analysis of course evaluation survey data. SmartEvals, a leading provider of course evaluation services to colleges and universities, plays a pivotal …