LibGuides: Get the Most Out of Student Feedback: Collecting & Interpreting Feedback

These resources provide best practices, tips, and general information about how to collect and interpret student feedback from a practical standpoint.

Gathering Quality Feedback

End-of-Semester Evaluations: Focus on Teaching
Faculty Focus (Blog Article)
Gathering Feedback from Students
Vanderbilt U. Center for Teaching (Web Article)
Helping Students Reflect on Their Feedback
Faculty Focus (Blog Article)
IDEA: Sample Instruments
IDEA: student rating instrument descriptions and sample items (Web Page)
Teaching Students to Write Teaching Evaluations
PraxisWiki (Online Journal Article)

Interpreting Student Feedback

Cruel Student Comments: Seven Ways to Soothe the Sting
Faculty Focus (Blog Article)
Faculty Perception of Instruction (PDF)
A reflection worksheet for faculty document and contextualize experience prior to receiving evaluations - Office of Faculty Excellence, U. of Central Florida.
How To Deal With Negative Teaching Evaluations
Inside Higher Ed (Blog Article)
Making Sense of Student Evaluations
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning - Lehigh U. (Web Article)
Making Sense of Student Written Comments
New Directions for Teaching & Learning (Academic Journal Article)
Making the Most of Your Course Evaluations: Practical Tips
Stanford U. Teaching Commons (Web Article)

Student Evaluations: An Overview

Course Evaluations: Helping Students Reflect on their Feedback