Except for the post-test and groupwork forms, all of the assesment instruments linked to from this webpage are licensed under a Creative Commons License. They can be used for commercial purposes only with my express permission.
Students use these to evaluate each other's oral presentations in my seminar classes. Students know that these are the criteria I use to grade their presentations because I tell them so and they get copies of the forms with their syllabus.
I use a more current version of the form than the one included here. If you want the latest version then please ask me for it by e-mail.
See also graduate teaching assessment forms
The Groupwork peer-assessment is based on the work of many others so it is not available under a Creative Commons license.
All of these assessments are anonymous. (At Dalhousie U. student evaluation of faculty used for tenure and promotion must be signed, unless the faculty member waives that right.) I insist on anonymous evaluations during the course because I feel it gives me more useful feedback with which to tune the course. I make sure that the forms are anonymous by telling students not to put their names on them, and by how I collect the forms.
Students may complete the forms in the classroom (in class-time or when they have finished answering questions on the test) or in their own time. If they complete them during class then the students put the forms into a single shared envelope that is far away from me. (I collect the test papers myself but students put the forms into the envelope themselves.) Students may also insert forms into the envelope at the start of the next class or by slipping them under my office door. Of course I never read the forms until everyone has had enough time to submit them.
I find discussing the general results and most prominent points from the surveys helps the students to get more out of the course.
On the advice of my former dean (Jacob Slonim) I do not conduct end-of-course or final exam assessments of my own. My Faculty conducts a course evaluation during one of the last lectures each semester.
See also graduate peer assessment forms
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Except for the post-test and groupwork forms, all of the
assesment instruments linked to from this webpage are licensed under
a Creative
Commons License. They can be used for commercial purposes
only with my express permission.
Examinations: Accentuating the Positiveby McMullen-Pastrick and Gleason in Teaching College: Collected Readings for the New Instructor, Neff and Weimer (eds.), Magna Publications, Inc. (1990).
Created on 05 May 2002 by J. Blustein.
Last major update on 12 July 2012 by J. Blustein;
Last update of any kind on 29 July 2020 by J. Blustein.