Course evaluations in CCT take the following form:

Sample text to students:

Dear student,

please complete the following course evaluation for summer course CrCrTh NNN (instructor: NNN), as requested by the Critical and Creative Thinking program and College of Education and Human Development, no later than DATE. Please note that the form does not auto-save and so should be completed in one sitting. Responses are anonymous and get returned to instructors and program administration only at a point after the deadline for grade submission. We appreciate your feedback and look forward to learning about your experience in this course.

Question text used on course evaluations

1a. Start with an evaluation of yourself. What were your personal goals in taking this course? Did you achieve them? How would you have proceeded differently if you were doing this course again? What have been your major personal obstacles to learning more from this course?

1b. Self-evaluation (continued). What have you learned about what you have to do to make a course stimulating and productive (with respect to the format of this course: face-to-face, online, hybrid)?

2a. General Evaluation of course. What was special about this course (+positive and/or -negative)? How did the course meet or not meet your expectations? In what ways do you think this course could be improved?

2b. General evaluation (continued). In what ways did your attitude to doing the course change through the semester? How does it compare with other graduate courses? What would be your overall recommendation to prospective students?

3. Evaluation in relation to the course description. Read the course description/goals below. Comment on how well the goals expressed in the syllabus were met. Make general and specific suggestions about how these could be better met.

4. Synthetic statement (1 or 2 paragraphs). Building on your comments from Qs 1-3, compose a synthetic statement (1 or 2 paragraphs) evaluating this course. (Imagine readers who might not be willing to wade through all the answers to Qs 1-3, but are willing to read more than simply the numerical averages of standard course evaluations.) Please make comments that help the instructor develop the course in the future and that enable some third party to appreciate the course’s strengths and weaknesses. Among other things you might comment on the overall content and progression of classes, the session activities, and the use of mentors to support the learning in the course.

I give permission for my response to Question 4 to be included anonymously in the compilation posted to the CCT archives (and thus viewable to the public). (Yes/No)

Using the scale below, overall, how would you evaluate this course? 1. Very Poor 2. Poor 3. Average 4. Good 5. Excellent

Using the scale below, overall, how would you evaluate this instructor? 1. Very Poor 2. Poor 3. Average 4. Good 5. Excellent