Student Evaluations of Teaching: Preparing for and Analyzing Student Feedback
Teaching Tidbits Workshop Spring 2024
April 18, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
Synchronous-Distributed Event
Address
TEB 201, 924 S Morgan, Chicago, IL
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Overview
Whether you love them or hate them, it can be difficult to make sense of student evaluations of teaching. Students often leave conflicting or discouraging feedback, or worse yet, feedback that is unrelated to teaching practices. Considering that student evaluations remain one of the primary ways to get feedback on teaching, how can we help students provide useful and constructive feedback on evaluations? And once we get the feedback, how do we process it in a systematic and reflective way? During this workshop participants will learn about the bias and limitations of student evaluations, explore strategies to prepare students to give meaningful feedback, and engage with multiple approaches to analyze student evaluations of teaching.
After participating in this workshop, you will be able to:
- Discuss the bias and limitations of student evaluations of teaching
- Identify strategies to prepare students to give constructive and meaningful feedback
- Develop strategies to respond to student evaluations in a systematic and reflective manner
EVENT FORMAT: This workshop will be in a synchronous-distributed format. It is an on-campus, in-person event with the option to join online via live streaming.
EVENT LEAD: Katie Pierson, piersonk@uic.edu
EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Crystal Tse, tsecryst@uic.edu
Inclusivity & Accessibility Information: UIC is committed to full inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of university life. CATE’s online events are delivered through Zoom and may include breakout rooms and group discussion. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to all CATE events. If you have questions about access, such as parking or building layouts, or wish to request accommodations for our programming, such as real-time captioning (CART), ASL services, or obtaining event materials in alternative formats, please contact the event lead, Katie Pierson (piersonk@uic.edu).
Date posted
Dec 18, 2023
Date updated
Feb 1, 2024