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Meaningful Course Evaluations

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Heidi J. C. Ellis,

Gregory W. Hislop,

Cara Tang,

Stephen ZiloraAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '21: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

Pages 97 - 98

https://doi.org/10.1145/3450329.3476869

Published: 06 October 2021 Publication History

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Evaluating courses and how well they are taught is an essential task for every educational institution. Evaluations support improvement of instruction and course content. They are also often an important input to annual reviews and tenure and promotion decisions. In spite of these important uses, many institutions do not feel that their course evaluations are meeting these needs as well as they would like. And faculty, students, and administrators all seem to have some level of complaint and frustration related to evaluations. This panel will focus on course evaluation for computing degree programs. Panelists will identify problems and discuss helpful ideas for making course evaluations more useful.

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Troy Heffernan. 2021. Sexism, racism, prejudice, and bias: a literature review and synthesis of research surrounding student evaluations of courses and teaching. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

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Friederike Mengel, Jan Sauermann, Ulf Zölitz. 2019. Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations. Journal of the European Economic Association. 17, 2. Pp 535--566, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx057.

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Meaningful Course Evaluations
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information technology education

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SIGITE '21: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

October 2021

165 pages

ISBN:9781450383554

DOI:10.1145/3450329

General Chairs:
Barry Lunt
Brigham Young University, USA
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Derek Hansen
Brigham Young University, USA
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Paul Morrey
Utah Valley University, USA

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