I learned of the "three clear points, three muddy points" paper. I had not heard of this technique before, and I think it is an excellent option.
I learned various ways to close the loop. I have always done student evaluations, but I have not had other stakeholders complete evaluations. I will plan to add that to my classes. I realized the importance of self reflection upon the online class. It is important for teachers to refllect upon their work and make changes to improve their teaching.
There are quite a few ways to assess the level of understanding and using different ways allows differentiation. Sometimes a project can determine the level of understanding more than a test can but then again, who knows who is actually doing the project?
I need to relinquish some control and allow feedback from my peers to let me know what is and isn't working.
It is important to use multiple evaluation methods from all stakeholder groups to make necessary adjustments to the course to improve student learning.
Revising and adapting your course is important. Sometimes we don't realize what will work until we try.
Revision of a course is an ongoing process. This will prevent the class from getting outdated and keep new ideas and methods current. Updates should be incorporated using multiple sources.
It is important for teachers to have multiple evaluations throughout the course to give good, detailed feedback.
Having multiple evaluations of your course is most helpful, and student evaluations shouldn't be your sole resource for revising your modules.
I find you need multiple evaluations, I think you also have the way the evaluation is done.
Multiple evaluations are important
There are so many more tools than the "Student Survey" I have been using. I like the "Peer Review" concept which would do the same thing for us as teachers as it does for students, make us reflect on what we have done.
Multiple online stakeholders are needed to evaluate your online course. Both quantitative and qualitative data are necessary to evaluate. Peer evaluation and feedback can impact your online course by identifying strong and weak areas of communication with students. Evaluation is crucial to making the online course better and better. Outside resources can assist with assessing students.
Using student portfolios as a way to determinie what the students think is important, regarding learning indie the classroom. We have portfolios that the students complete.
There needs to be multiple ways to evaluate students. This allows us to know what a student knows and a clear picture of what they need support with.
Evaluation of the course needs to be from multiple sources and ongoing to be effective
I need to utilize multiple methods of evaluation when it comes to revising the design of a course. Student evaluations are not enough to base changes upon.
It was important to know that course assessments need to be completed by more than just students.
Learned the importance of creating multiple evaluations.
Overall excellent ideas and practical application of course evaluation theory as well as every day technique. Great defintions of quantitative data versus qualitative data and using multiple forms and types of data when evaluating courses, your own (teacher / instructor) performance and the overall ability of your course or program to accomplish it's most important goal: Helping the student!
