Student Feedback – Center for Teaching and Learning

What Can We Learn from Course Evaluations?

Spoiler alert: you can’t tell how well the students actually learned in your course. While feedback on your course evaluations will be helpful to understand the student experience, a recently published meta-analysis found no correlation between student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and later performance, and actually a negative correlation after grade controls. When schools connected contract renewal to SETs, there was evidence of grade inflation by those instructors.

Create regular connections with every single learner

One of the challenges of teaching is reaching every student. This can be especially difficult in distance courses where you don’t have a chance to grab a student after class to check in on them.

Facilitated Feedback

Why wait until the end of the semester to get feedback from your students on the Student Evaluations of Teaching in Blue? With our Facilitated Feedback program, otherwise known as Ongoing Learning Assessment, we can help you understand the student experience in your courses, regardless of modality, with enough time to effect change that can improve learning.