Course Evaluations

It is nearly that time again. A message from SOI:

SOI course evaluations will be conducted for eligible Summer I session courses from June 22 - 28, 2011. Please ask your students to watch their student email account for an invitation message with complete instructions on Wednesday. Please encourage them to complete the surveys during the data collection period.

I do take evaluations seriously and try to use the feedback you provide to make things better the next time around. Completing the evaluation shouldn't take much time. Particularly since this is my first time teaching PH101, I'd appreciate the feedback - good or bad, both are useful.

I guess more to the point: my department chair and dean look at these things very carefully. I can't see them until well after final grades are submitted, and the evaluations are completely anonymous. So, whether you think good or ill of the course, you should do the evaluation and not hold back. The evaluations are one particular bit of student feedback that receives very close attention. These days, you can actually add comments on top of the numerical rankings, all the better for you to voice your opinions.

No need to do it right now - study for your exam, you have about a week, maybe this weekend you could spend 5 min on it ... but you're not wasting your time in filling out the form.