Hi Christine, I teach at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University using TBL and have used several online evaluations including course evaluations, and peer evaluations over the past 5 years. I give course credit to students for filling out online evaluations and it works beautifully. I have access to the names of the students who fill out peer evaluations and give those who submit them on time 5 points of individual credit. I do not have access to the names of those who fill out course evaluations so I give everyone 5 points of team credit if over 90% of the class fills them out on time. I also emphasize that I value their input, read all of their evaluations, and use their feedback to improve the course. Even though these points are a small fraction of the 350+ course points, this has been very effective. Typically, the response rates are about 99%. I hope this helps. Best wishes Holly Bender On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Christine Kuramoto wrote: > 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 > > -- > ******* > Christine Kuramoto, Assistant Professor: Medical English > Kyushu University, Department of Medical Education > Faculty of Medical Sciences > 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582 Japan > Phone: (+81)92-642-6186 Fax: (+81)92-642-6188 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Holly Bender, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP Director, Biomedical Informatics Research Group Room 2254 Veterinary Medicine Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology College of Veterinary Medicine Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011-1250 ph. 515-294-7947 fax 515-294-5423 [log in to unmask] http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/faculty_staff/profiles/hbender.asp http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/pathfinder/birg/BIRG.html