Instructions for Students
Your responses are an important source of information about the quality of instruction you are receiving. This information will help the university evaluate its teaching effectiveness and will help your instructor to monitor and improve his or her teaching. Answer each item honestly and thoughtfully. If you believe a particular item does not apply to this course, leave that item blank. Your instructor will not receive the results of this survey until after final grades have been submitted.
Use a # 2 pencil to mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
DO NOT put your name, social security number, sex, or birth date on the answer form. IMPORTANT: On Side Two of the Answer Sheet, in the space marked Identification Number, first enter the 6-digit course registration number that your instructor has provided. Begin writing the number in the left-most of the nine boxes (left-justification). Leave the remaining three boxes blank. Then mark the appropriate circles with a # 2 pencil.
Summary Questions
1. The instructor is punctual in meeting class and office hour responsibilities:
2. The workload for this course is:
3. The difficulty level of the course activities and materials is:
4. The textbook(s) and readings used in this course are:
5. Rate how well the syllabus, course outline, or other overviews provided by the instructor helped you to understand the goals and expectations of this course:
6. Rate the usefulness of the outside assignments (writings, reports, and special projects) in helping you to learn:
7. Rate how well the various elements of the course (e.g., class activities, textbooks/readings, and outside assignments) worked together in helping you to learn:
8. Overall, how much do you feel you have learned in this course?
9. What is your overall rating of this instructor's teaching effectiveness compared with other college instructors you have had?
10. What is your overall rating of this course?
General Education Questions
Please indicate the degree to which you agree with the next 25 statements that follow:
11. This course introduced ideas I had not previously encountered.
12. My writing improved in this course through papers, essay exams, journals, lab reports, and other types of writing assignments.
13. This course helped sharpen my thinking by asking questions, analyzing arguments, and making connections.
14. In this course I learned about people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
15. This course has helped me to identify the cultural and social dimensions of the issues presented.
16. I became increasingly confident in stating my views and expressing myself orally in this course.
17. The materials and presentations helped me see different viewpoints on individual topics in this course.
18. This course challenged many of my old beliefs about how the world works.
19. The course helped me to understand how facts can differ from feelings on a subject.
20. As a result of this course I now understand how ideas, movements, or individuals bring about change.
21. The material in this course is important to me.
22. I am more likely to examine evidence and assess its usefulness before drawing a conclusion as a result of this course.
23. This course helped me to understand the relationship between theory and evidence.
24. As a result of this course I understand more about the interplay between tradition and change.
25. This course made me ask more and better questions about the issues.
26. This course helped me to understand the social, cultural, and personal factors that cause people to disagree.
27. As a result of this course I learned to rely more on my own assessment of original material and less on the opinions of others.
28. I feel more confident of my ability to work with others as a result of this course.
29. I have applied what I have learned in this course to the ideas and activities in other courses.
30. I now understand how the topics and issues of this course can impact on my life.
31. I could explain in some detail the ideas, theories, and facts of this course to a parent or grandparent.
32. I feel I have improved personally as a result of this course.
33. I am now more convinced of the importance of the material of this course.
34. I find myself talking with other students about the material of this course.
35. I would recommend this course to another student.
36.In my program, this course is:
37. My class is:
A. freshman
B. sophomore
C. middler (in 5 years)
D. junior
E. senior
F. graduate student
38. My overall gradepoint average is:
39. I expect to receive a grade closest to:
40.