Student Evaluations That Generate More Questions Than Answers

by: Maria Oliver-Hoyo

As a chemical educator, one of the author’s primary goals is to provide students with tools for effective learning, hopefully doing so in an engaging, motivating, and incrementally challenging experience. In her quest to figure out how to do a better job, student evaluations seemed a logical place to start looking for answers. Even though others have contested the meaningfulness of student evaluations as tools for teaching improvements (Kelter 2004), her experience, which is described in this article, provides valuable insights into how these evaluations could help improve her teaching.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2008Stock # jcst08_038_01_37Volume 038Issue 01

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