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Why Survey?
Improving your course with student feedback
Questions? Comments? Contact Greg at 566-8101 ext. 7522 or e-mail at: gbcooper@cambrianc.on.ca
REASONS:
- Engages student as an active participant in improving their learning environment
- Improves student satisfaction
- Gains students' trust and increases participation
- Improves quality of your instructional delivery
- Good teaching practice in traditional or online course
HOW?
- Use a START survey as the "course barometer" on course components, expectations, etc.
- Use a MID survey to assess the key items from the first survey AND subsequent progress
- Use an END survey for the same reasons as the mid, but assess progress across all three surveys
- Summarize results so students can see how you interpret their feedback
- Commit & respond appropriately (e.g. Acknowledge feedback? Publish results? Implement and document changes?)
- Keep it simple & short
- Respond in a reasonable amount of time
- Implement the improvements you CAN
- Explain why you CAN'T implement other things now, or when you can
SAMPLES:
- Sample online (WebCT) survey
- FIRST course survey for CET 1200 students, Feb 2001
- SECOND course survey for CET 1200 students, Mar 2001
- FINAL course survey for CET 1200 students, May 2001
- MINI survey for ISP 3631 students, May 2001
WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE?
- Paper version works fine! Start with that!
- Start with a simpler version?
- Deal with only one or two issues initially
- Enhance your department's existing course survey?
- Want to try an on-line WebCT version? Get help from Cambrian Online ext. 7464 or visit us in room 3005
- Excellent tool to help you in a peer appraisal process
- Excellent strategy to examine program maps and determine strengths & weaknesses
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