Students Evaluating Teachers (For College Students)

[filsteal]

I've taught college classes for several semesters now, and I get to see the student evaluation forms after the semester is over.

Ours have two parts: a bubble section, and a "write things" section. I would say that only about 25% of students actually write things in the "write things" section, but for those that do, I think their comments can be pretty helpful.

As for the bubble sections, you obviously can't tell if they took it seriously or not, but in my experience, the faculty's opinions of who the best instructors are tends to agree with the students' opinions, so enough people take it seriously to have an effect over the "noise."