I just finished teaching another semester of Anatomy and Physiology which means students will soon be evaluating my course. Well, about 20% of my students will be evaluating my course. Why such little feedback?
About a year ago the University decided to switch from in-class paper evaluations to an online system. Online is always better, right? Wrong.
While going to an online system may decrease the work of a few administrators, it renders the whole evaluation worthless because so few students choose to respond to the optional online survey. The students who do respond likely either really liked or hated you. Talk about biased results! I wonder how much money is spent on this now useless form of feedback.
Take home message: don’t waste resources collecting data that is worthless upon arrival.