EPF 133 Task 4 Student Evaluations                                       

This report will look into the importance of feedback from learners and it will show different methods that can be used to gain feedback.

‘Student evaluation of courses, in collaboration with other procedures, helps to assure and to enhance the quality of our provision.

The School regards the purpose of course evaluation as being threefold:

  1. To provide information to assist tutors to reflect on their course design and teaching;
  2. To encourage students to reflect on their own learning;
  3. To inform the annual monitoring of programmes’. (Unknown)

It is important to gain feedback for several different reasons. Firstly, you can evaluate your own teaching, by gaining feedback from your students. You can evaluate how well your students are doing in the class and you can also make sure that the students understand your teachings. Also, by gaining feedback you can make regular changes and improvements to lessons.

‘Evaluation and assessment are how we find out what students are learning, how they are progressing, and how we can make improvements for their future development. With requirements for testing and standards-based instruction at an all-time high, effective student evaluation is more essential today than ever before’. (Gullickson A.R.2002)

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There are different ways of gaining feedback from your students. You can be given feedback verbally or in written form, during each lesson, after each lesson, after each session or at the very end of the course. There are positives and negatives for all these different methods of feedback. Getting feedback there and then means that some important information is not forgotten by the end of the week. On the other hand, getting feedback at the end of the course could mean that people are more truthful, or not ‘put on the spot’ as much.

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