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We also do online student evaluations and had the same lack of participation, if the students were left to complete them on their own. Administration asked us to designate a portion of class time to allow them to complete the evaluations, and this seemed to help. But it also was dependent on their moods at the time of completing the evaluations - example: I had just given a difficult hand's on lab exercise as part of a final exam and asked the students to do the course evaluation after they finished the final. The results were too opinionated to reprint and very reflective of that "slice of time", but not of the entire course. Probably bad timing on my part, but I lost some confidence in these surveys as a result. 

Tim Dwyer
Oklahoma State University     

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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine Kuramoto
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:46 AM
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Subject: student evaluations

Hello everyone,

I just got to look at the student feedback from my first try at TBL and 
found that only 17 out of 115 even did the computer based class 
evaluations.  It's really disappointing. 

The medical school has started doing all of the evaluations by computer 
which makes it necessary for courses that aren't taught in the computer 
room to be evaluated outside of class time.  My general education 
classes are still evaluated on paper (scan sheets), so we get good 
numbers giving feedback (at least the number of students in attendance 
on the day of the evaluations.)

Now the medical school is discussing making it a requirement for 
students to complete the online evaluations in order to be able to view 
their grades.  I'm wondering what universities in your countries do?

Christine

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Christine Kuramoto, Assistant Professor: Medical English
Kyushu University, Department of Medical Education
Faculty of Medical Sciences
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