Online Evaluations Receive Mixed Feelings
Jameelee Ford
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: News
As each semester comes to an end, the entire Utica College community is faced with filling out the "oh so popular" evaluations for each course and professor.
During the last few weeks of each semester professors are faced with having to constantly remind each student to fill out the fairly new online evaluation form.
Nursing professor Nancy Holland who was involved with the online evaluation feels that the paper form was not accurate.
"Yes, the paper form got more students, but students would rush through them to get out of class." Holland said. " Now the online form allows students to put in comments for the multiple choice questions, which are very helpful to us."
The online evaluation consists of two sections. Part one consists of multiple choice questions that allows the student to rate the course and the professor's performance.
The second part is more detailed and asks the students more personal questions about the course, such as the student's participation and quality content of the course material. It allows the student to go into more detail about the professor's performance as a whole.
The purpose of the evaluation is to give the professors a better understanding of how well they performed and how strong or weak their course content is.
The evaluations went online for the Fall 2005 semester and ever since there has been a lot of mixed feelings among students, as well as faculty. Before the online evaluations, professors were allotted a small amount of time toward the last class of the semester for their students to fill out the evaluations.
According to junior Eric Barnes, "It doesn't serve its purpose; it was more functional when class time was set aside." Now no one really does them."
Although the online evaluation requires a little more effort on that of the student to take the time out to go online to evaluate their professors, some students and faculty still feel that the evaluation is worthwhile.
During the last few weeks of each semester professors are faced with having to constantly remind each student to fill out the fairly new online evaluation form.
Nursing professor Nancy Holland who was involved with the online evaluation feels that the paper form was not accurate.
"Yes, the paper form got more students, but students would rush through them to get out of class." Holland said. " Now the online form allows students to put in comments for the multiple choice questions, which are very helpful to us."
The online evaluation consists of two sections. Part one consists of multiple choice questions that allows the student to rate the course and the professor's performance.
The second part is more detailed and asks the students more personal questions about the course, such as the student's participation and quality content of the course material. It allows the student to go into more detail about the professor's performance as a whole.
The purpose of the evaluation is to give the professors a better understanding of how well they performed and how strong or weak their course content is.
The evaluations went online for the Fall 2005 semester and ever since there has been a lot of mixed feelings among students, as well as faculty. Before the online evaluations, professors were allotted a small amount of time toward the last class of the semester for their students to fill out the evaluations.
According to junior Eric Barnes, "It doesn't serve its purpose; it was more functional when class time was set aside." Now no one really does them."
Although the online evaluation requires a little more effort on that of the student to take the time out to go online to evaluate their professors, some students and faculty still feel that the evaluation is worthwhile.
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