It is very important to have an evaluation from your peers and from you of the student's progress, and the quality of the coarse.
I learned the meaning of closing the loop as it pertains to evaluating and revising your course. I will need to evaluate my course qualitatively and quantitativelly and use what I learn to continuously improve and revise my course offering.
It makes good sense that multiple sources of evaluation and feedback can be used to revise the course in order to give the students the best learning experience.
Multiple assessments from multiple sources provide the best data to 'close the loop' enabling growth of your online course.
Constant Self-reflection and course revision are necessary tools for an online environment.
multiple evaluation is a better assement toll than relying on one
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Multiple evaluations is better for effective learning and teaching.
I like the comment that one of the collegues made that what ever we do in a course it should lead to a better ending. Through multiple resources and careful evaluation throughout a course changes and suggestions can be given. This makes for a better set of instructions and better guidance through the learning process. Multiple evaluations will guide the usefulness of certain tools. Closing the loop is a multi step process that includes teacher, student, other teachers and informed stakeholders.
Course evaluation improves student learning experinces, curriculum etc. The best way to gain an accurate summation of my course would be pretest/posttest from my students.
Multiple evaluations appears to be the perferred method for analyzing student progress in the course.
Multiple evaluations will accomodaite various needs of the student learner.
Reply to Sarah Walters's post: Sara I agree that our students need multiple learning resources to meet their learning expectations.
Submitted by: Marilyn Renfroe
Multiple evaluations are needed. I liked the discovery of the SALG website to better assess from the student's perspective! I added a bookmark for this website.
Gaining insight from multiple sources can help greatly in shoring up weaker aspects of your online course.
It is important to gather data from many areas to ensure you can identify what worked well and what need revision. Identifying how to gather this information and interpreting what it is telling you, will be important for the success of your class.
Using multiple rescource for evaluation is important for face to face classes and online classes
It is important not only to get feedback from students, but Also other educators when evaluating the effectiveness of the lessons.
Reviewing and revising is critical to student success in a relevant learning process for all stakeholders. It's key to use multiple sources of evaluation and data collection analysis in the this process.
It is imperative to use multiple types of evaluations to make changes to or analyze your course. The numerous evaluations to choose from either provide effectiveness feedback to the student, instructor, or institution.
