You know the drill: At the end of the semester numerous e-mails reach your inbox asking you to evaluate a course. But why should you do a course evaluation? And what exactly is happening with your feedback?
What is happening during a course evaluation?
In every degree programme, the courses must be evaluated by students at least every three semesters. However, teachers can also voluntarily initiate a course evaluation beyond this requirement. This is how it works:
- At the end of the semester, you receive an e-mail from your teacher.
- This e-mail contains a link to an online questionnaire.
- You should answer the questions during the relevant course unit.
- All your answers are completely anonymous. It is not possible to identify individual students. Therefore, please be honest when filling in the questionnaire and do not hesitate to give constructive feedback.
The more concrete your feedback, the better teachers can understand what works well and where there is room for improvement.
After this process, teachers receive an evaluation report including statistical results and the free text comments.
Your feedback counts!
- Your feedback is used to improve courses.
- The conclusions and measures should also be discussed with the students. This might take place on Moodle or in person during the next course unit.
- In the following semester, teachers should inform the students which measures have been implemented, based on the feedback from the previous semester.
Also the directors of studies (SPL) receive the evaluation results. If students evaluate a course rather negatively, the directors of studies have a conversation with the teachers during which the reasons for the evaluation results are identified and measures for improvement are elaborated.
You would like to know more? On this website, you can find even more information. Also this YouTube video explains the course evaluation clearly.
