If you’re an educator who wants to improve your courses and your students’ learning experience, then you’re likely interested in implementing course evaluations to collect student insights and feedback.
The data you gather from this process will help you identify and assess any gaps in teaching methodology, course structure and materials, and your own performance — all with an eye toward making improvements that will enhance student learning and satisfaction.
No matter which teaching environment you find yourself in — a school, college, university or other educational setting — the course evaluation is an essential tool for making your classes more effective.
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Educators use course evaluations as a way to ask students a series of questions at the end of the semester or term to gauge the quality and effectiveness of a course. Once these are complete, administrators and instructors review and analyze the feedback from evaluations to identify course and instructor strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
Obviously, to get useful feedback from your course evaluations, you have to ask the right questions. When you’re developing your questions, it’s helpful to focus on four key areas: course structure, instructor performance, materials, and student satisfaction with the course.
Here are 35 course evaluation examples and common questions to get you started in each of these four categories.
Designing and structuring a course effectively is as important as teaching effectively. Here are some evaluation questions to help you understand how your course structure impacts student learning and results.
Students can answer these and the following questions by indicating their level of agreement on a scale: strongly agree, moderately agree, neutral, moderately disagree, or strongly disagree.
These course evaluation questions are related to the instructor. They’re meant to capture insight into the instructor’s effectiveness, teaching approach, knowledge of the course material, clarity in explaining course material, and more.
These questions are meant to determine if course materials complement each other and advance course objectives in a logical, accessible manner.
These questions are meant to assess and understand the student experience.
Ready to get started on developing your course evaluations? Jotform makes it easy to navigate the course evaluation process with our free course evaluation form, student course evaluation form and course instructor feedback form templates.
In addition to these free resources, Jotform has special pricing plans for educators. Get started with our data collection tool today and receive a 50 percent educational discount for any paid plan. With the discount, the Bronze plan is just $19.50 per month and includes 25 forms and 1,000 monthly submissions. The Silver plan is $24.50 per month and expands your limits to 50 forms and 2,500 monthly submissions. And the Gold Plan is $64.50 per month and gives you 100 forms and 10,000 monthly submissions. We also offer a 30 percent discount on Jotform Enterprise for educational institutions. Jotform Enterprise is a powerful, secure platform that allows you to create a comprehensive school-management platform to fit your needs. Course evaluations are a great tool for measuring performance and helping educators improve the student learning experience. The questions here are just a few among many you could ask. The important thing is to seek student feedback and implement your findings so you can effectively engage your students and help them learn. Photo by fauxels