Student Evaluation of Courses at Kalamazoo College
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Authors
Croxford, Lynne Louise
Issue Date
1969
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
For the past seven years the College administration
has attempted to monitor student opinion through the Senior
Faculty Evaluation, a mimeographed questionnaire distributed
to graduating seniors. The questionnaire is in itself faulty.
The criteria on which students are asked to rate their instructors
are vague and overlapping. Respondents are asked
to evaluate all of the instructors that they have ever had
in the course of their college career, though their memories
of course they had taken in their freshman year are dim and
unreliable. Finally, in surveying only graduating seniors,
the College misses a large segment of the student body, approximately
fifty per cent of those who enroll as freshmen,
who do not graduate. These students may have left the school
because of the quality of the instruction they received. Student surveys do have a valid place in the
evaluation of instruction. They can be of value to the
faculty, the student body, and the administration. With such
a tool the faculty can receive feedback on how effective their
courses are. With such a tool the student body can be more
discriminating and critical about what they are taught and
hopefully more involved in the educational process. Student
morale can even improve. And with such a tool the
administration has a basis for evaluating the quality of instruction
on which the eventual success or failure of the
institution depends.
Description
vii, 88 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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