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As a human with feelings who cares deeply about my students and puts everything I have into the courses I teach, I take course evaluations very seriously.
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As a human with feelings who cares deeply about my students and puts everything I have into the courses I teach, I take course evaluations very seriously.
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As has been documented in academic scholarship and other places, student evals of women professors often share characteristics that are not positive.
It's really hard not to take comments on evals personally.
If I share a general reaction to a course eval, I do so in part
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It's really hard not to take comments on evals personally.
If I share a general reaction to a course eval, I do so in part
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to communicate that I am a fallible human experiencing the feedback as a human, with feelings.
I don't think we talk enough in higher ed generally about any of these things. And everyone loses because of this.
I share my general reaction to evals in part to humanize
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I don't think we talk enough in higher ed generally about any of these things. And everyone loses because of this.
I share my general reaction to evals in part to humanize
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the process.
What I crave? The opportunity to talk with students who shared really valuable (especially when critical) or adamantly negative feedback. I have so many questions. Because I genuinely care and want to understand their perspective.
I don't know how we fix
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What I crave? The opportunity to talk with students who shared really valuable (especially when critical) or adamantly negative feedback. I have so many questions. Because I genuinely care and want to understand their perspective.
I don't know how we fix
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the current system but as someone who studies and teaches the science and art of feedback in many different contexts, I know what we do and how we do it doesn't fall within any best practice.
Curious to hear from others who've thought about this issue.
How do we
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Curious to hear from others who've thought about this issue.
How do we
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make the current system work better, to serve a productive purpose? Can we?
How might we create meaningful opportunities for students to share feedback in ways that then create opportunities for teachers to grow and learn, themselves?
And the fact that
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How might we create meaningful opportunities for students to share feedback in ways that then create opportunities for teachers to grow and learn, themselves?
And the fact that
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we (teachers) are people too, with feelings, is relevant here.
When you say intentionally unkind, personal things in a course eval, you are hurting someone's feelings. Not making them better.
Unkind is very different than critical feedback intended to help someone grow.
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When you say intentionally unkind, personal things in a course eval, you are hurting someone's feelings. Not making them better.
Unkind is very different than critical feedback intended to help someone grow.
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