Dec. 4: First Friday Roundtable

December program to examine course evaluations

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3:57 p.m., Nov. 30, 2015--The First Friday Roundtable series at the University of Delaware will hold its December session on Friday, Dec. 4.

These monthly discussion sessions provide an opportunity for all who teach at UD to explore teaching, learning and assessment practices and issues.

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On Dec. 4, the topic will be “Considering the right things: Motivate students to evaluate teaching fairly.” The session is scheduled from 3:30-5 p.m. in Room 315 of the Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory. To register, click here.

Course evaluation season is nearly here, and in this roundtable, experienced faculty members will offer insight into how they have used and conducted end-of-semester course evaluations. 

Some panelists are or have been department chairs or deans and will contribute input from those perspectives, too. Joy Lynam, UD's director of IT Web Development, will also be on the panel to share the experiences and insights she has gained from managing the university's online course evaluations for nearly 15 years.

Attendees will also spend some time in this session planning for their end-of-course evaluations. With the help of panelists and other attendees, participants will compile concrete ideas on how to make the value of these evaluations clear to students so they can provide fair, honest and useful feedback.

Future sessions

Upcoming sessions are scheduled on:

• Feb. 12, UD Faculty Commons Grants: Developing your idea into a fundable project. Register here;

• March 4, How to assess our own teaching and motivate students. Register here;

• April 8 – Topic to be determined. Register here; and

• May 6 – Motivating students to do their best on your assessments. Register here.

For more information about future First Friday Roundtable session topics and dates, visit the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning’s website.

The First Friday roundtables are designed and sponsored through a collaboration of IT Academic Technology Services, the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, Library Services and the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning.

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