Student Evaluations in the Online Environment
Dear Faculty,
Do you have any strategies that have helped you improve student evaluations? In the online environment, it seems that we have some additional challenges in building rapport with students and it requires additional effort to communicate our desires to see them succeed. I also teach a subject area that encounters a high level of student frustration, mathematics, and have found the small sample size of student evaluations and the aforementioned circumstances to be challenging in terms of obtaining consistent student evaluations. I of course prioritize high quality instruction, create resources for students, email them personally, reply quickly and engage students whole heartedly, but I wish for these result to better reflect the work I put into teaching.
What have you experienced?
Sincerely,
Eugenia
Eugenia,
Everything you are doing is terrific. The classroom I have provides and interactive audiovisual component. That is my only additional recommendation. Somes students seem to understand my commitment to their educational outcome much better when they see and hear me interact with them. I also rely on the recording feature in these sessions. It seems to be a powerful tool for my style of online teaching.
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
