Today’s Plan:
- Review your Research
- Course Evaluation Project Details
- For Next Class
Course Evaluation Project
On Thursday we will meet in the Ross Computer lab. I will ask folks to form groups and begin designing better course evaluation methods. This part of the project will be due on Tuesday, November 19th. There are two main deliverables for this part of the project.
- A new course evaluation survey (both a Google Doc and developed in Google Forms)
- A Course Evaluation Improvement Recommendation Report
The report should have the following sections:
- Introduction (250 of the best words you have ever written; don’t even fucking try to write this until you have finished the rest of the report. SERIOUSLY I will know)
- Background Research: Identifying the Problems with Course Evaluations (300-500 words)
- Developing a New Survey Instrument (600-800 words that explain how you put together a new survey and why those questions are necessary/important. Note–that word count might be too low. Not sure.)
- Beyond Surveys (600-800 words on what and why, in addition to the traditional survey, the department should incorporate into its evaluation criteria / instructor evaluation procedures
This is a business report, not an academic paper, so we will use business formatting (single-space, block paragraphs). We will use APA citation with a reference list. The Google Doc version of your Course Evaluation will be included as an Appendix.
Review Your Research
I’d like to pick up where we left off Thursday. Tell me what you know.
For Next Class
You need to read the entirety of the Miller Demagoguery book for next Tuesday. Sometime on Friday I will put up a reading notes / response “quiz” on Canvas. But our class discussion on Tuesday will be directed toward specific sentences in the text. Underline the sentences that sting you.
