Comments on: My Algebra II Student Evaluations http://samjshah.com/2009/02/09/my-algebra-ii-student-evaluations/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Students write comments on ME « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere http://samjshah.com/2009/02/09/my-algebra-ii-student-evaluations/#comment-1912 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:54:38 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1095#comment-1912 [...] ask my kids to write narrative comments on me, and every year I am a total wuss about reading them. First I put them aside on my desk at school, and when I [...]

]]> By: jd2718 http://samjshah.com/2009/02/09/my-algebra-ii-student-evaluations/#comment-782 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:51:57 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1095#comment-782 I do scales on specific questions, with short answers, for seniors in 1-term electives. For everyone else I ask for one thing they liked and one they didn’t like. Nothing anonymous.

As many kids focused on a genuine negative that I need to repair but prefer not to discuss publicly, I’m not saying. But from one class about a third mentioned moving too quickly, which I will reflect on. Though many others rated that same thing as a positive, as it gives us time to go off topic, or play games. I did get some specific feedback on units that went particularly well or poorly (different in different classes).

The admonition not to get personal, with the promise that nothing said would be used against them, they were enough to get me some useful feedback.

Jonathan

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