Student Evaluation Follow-up

Student Evaluation Follow-up

Contributed by C. Krueger, U Virginia

The purpose of this form or guide is to help TAs to distill the information in their student evaluations. In the short term they will fine-tune their teaching accordingly, and in the long term, they will have organized notes available when the time comes to talk or write about their teaching performance for job interviews. At the same time, the form should help language program directors to focus their reading and response to the evaluations.

Fill out the following information before you examine the evaluations your students turned in.

  • Name
  • Semester/year
  • Course number
  • Experience with course
    • N.B.: Please do not write on your students' evaluations! Read the evaluations using "Post-It" labels to identify comments of particular interest, especially comments you might want to quote or photocopy in the future.

    As you read your evaluations, try to find the following information:

    1. Patterns of positive evaluation: In what areas do you see a pattern of positive feedback from your students (grammar presentation, classroom dynamics, fairness, etc.)?

    2. Patterns of negative evaluation: According to these evaluations, what areas of teaching and might you improve?

    3. Misunderstandings: Are there any isolated comments which bother you, or to which you would like to respond?

    4. Summarize your student evaluations in a few sentences, and try to answer the following questions: