Using Student Evaluations to Assess Teaching

The Center for Excellence for Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi staff will analyze and synthesize student evaluations of courses to help faculty determine what might help student learning. For this help, call 662-915-1391 or email jlott@olemiss.edu.

This ERIC document considers many aspects of student evaluations.  How they might be used to influence teaching is a small part of the discussion.

"A Punitive Bureaucratic Tool or a Valuable Resource? Using Student Evaluations to Enhance Your Teaching,” Sarah Moore and Nyiel Kuol, University of Limerick. In AISHE Readings: Emerging Issues in the Practice of University Learning and Teaching, 2005. This article focuses on faculty reaction to student evaluations of teaching and explores individual strategies for analyzing student feedback in ways that will enhance future teaching.

“Using Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching,” Speaking of Teaching, Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, Fall 1997, Vol. 9, No. 1. Suggestions for interpreting student evaluations and using them to improve teaching.