Okayama JALT:

Student Evaluations of Teachers. What do the learners think?

Date: Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Peter Burden

Description:
The end of semester questionnaire given to students for course feedback has become a ritual for teachers and students. While the purpose of any student evaluation of teaching is the improvement of teaching and implicitly the improvement of student learning, are the results used to benefit the education system? For teachers to make improvements to their teaching after student feedback, they must consider student opinion worth listening to, and be willing to make the student a participant in the process. We assume that students answer these anonymous instruments honestly and willingly. Yet, do they? This study asked the students through a qualitative open-ended survey about their general attitudes toward the evaluation, how conscientiously they responded, what purposes they think are served by the evaluations, and what should happen to teachers who consistently receive poor evaluations.

Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Okayama JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen; students 500 yen

Venue: Okayama Sankaku building near Omotecho in Okayama city

Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

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