{"id":416,"date":"2023-04-17T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/?p=416"},"modified":"2023-04-17T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:17:35","slug":"student-evaluations-and-making-the-best-of-the-last-day-of-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/2023\/04\/17\/student-evaluations-and-making-the-best-of-the-last-day-of-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Evaluations and Making the Best of the Last Day of Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Student evaluations<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0offer good metrics for assessing teaching effectiveness. They can contain valuable insight into the successes and failures of a course and the strengths and weaknesses of the instructor. However, as with any information, its value depends upon appropriate interpretation. Learn about how to prepare\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/guides-sub-pages\/student-evaluations\/\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">students for evaluations<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to get constructive feedback and how to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cte.virginia.edu\/resources\/how-i-read-my-student-evaluations\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interpret evaluation results<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Make the<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0last day of class<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0count. Too often, the last day of a class can be taken up with housekeeping-information on the final, last minute details, and course evaluations. But as Richard Lyons, author of several books on college teaching says, &#8220;the final class is a key student retention milepost.&#8221; This\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.berkeley.edu\/last-day-class\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">article<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0offer some tips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student evaluations\u00a0offer good metrics for assessing teaching effectiveness. They can contain valuable insight into the successes and failures of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/celtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}