Further Resources
CES can provide useful information on both improving your teaching practice and enhancing learning experiences for your students. The literature and relevant takeaways listed below can assist you in making the most of the student responses you receive.
Relevant Literature
INTERPRETING Quantitative FEEDBACK
- Discusses how combining the ratings across multiple courses taught for one instructor can improve takeaways from data and strengthen statistical tests.
- Investigates practices involving interpretations of mean values of ratings on student evaluations, arguing against overinterpretation of small variation.
Interpreting Qualitative Feedback
- Discusses how to break comments out by sentiment into actionable/non-actionable categories, and looks at dealing with "outlier" comments.
- Outlines processes for organizing qualitative feedback, including how best to break down comments thematically and by sentiment.
Actioning Your Data
- An overview of relevant literature on SETS interpretation, encouraging the use of consultation with peers post-evaluation as part of a goal-setting exercise.
- Experimental study that explores the impact of collaborative consultation post-evaluation.
- Looks at various strategies and structures for peer-consultation sessions in order to identify those strategies that maximize positive impact for teaching practice.