Course Evaluations

Course evaluation packets will be distributed to your mailbox about 4 weeks before classes end. You will receive a separate packet for each course you are teaching. (Directions will be on the front of the packet.)

Course evaluations are anonymous and confidential. Students should not write their name on the evaluation sheet. Instructors do not see the completed course evaluations until the semester grades are turned in.

Instructors are to leave the room while course evaluations are administered. Please appoint a student to collect the completed evaluations and return them to the American Studies office in W-5-003.

We want you to have accurate feedback on your evaluations. Below are some tips to keep your evaluations on track:

• Announce the date you will give course evaluations in advance so that students can be prepared. If any student is absent when course evaluations are given, the student may come to the American Studies Office and the administrative assistant will give the student an evaluation and add it to your packet.

• Allow your students adequate time to fill out the evaluations. Fifteen minutes should be adequate. If you do evaluations at the end of class, allow at least fifteen minutes before class ends. Appoint a student who does not have a class immediately afterwards to take the evaluations up to the American Studies office.

• Do your evaluations BEFORE the last day of class. Often, students who have not been in class most of the semester will show up on the last day--and fill out an evaluation even though they have not been in class.

• Do not give your evaluations during a final exam. (1): the instructor is to leave the room during the evaluations, and, (2): after the stress of a final, students will frequently evaluate your final exam rather than the course.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask Shauna in the main office.