WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR STUDENT RATING FORM RESULTS?

ADMINISTRATION OF STUDENT RATING FORMS
Yup! It’s that time of the year. The Cherry Blossoms are gone and many professors on the east coast are sneezing and wheezing their brains out from the sky-high pollen counts. They’re medicating themselves with megadoses of antihistamines like Benadryl, Zyrtec, Claritin, Allegra, Clarinex, Flonase, Nazonex, and Sneezwhizz.

This is the perfect time to administer those end-of-course student rating forms and interpret the scores. The results usually appear better when you’re drowsy and punchy from those medications. This month has the highest number of forms administered world-wide, except for December when the same professors are sneezing and wheezing from the common cold.

The forms may be administered in class or online, but the results have to be reported in some format. You may receive the results in a couple of days to several months, depending on your processing system. Of course, all of this happens in between commencement exercises and end-of-year parties. Hopefully, you can glance at the form results before your next course begins in the summer or fall.

YOUR "RATING ANGEL"
I am your Rating Angel for this next week. If you’re not sure how to interpret the scores or use the results, this blog series is for YOU! I want you to milk those ratings for all their worth, to squeeze every drip of information that can guide your teaching improvement.

If you already know how to interpret these scores, STOP reading this blog immediately. Disregard it and get back to work, class, or lunch. Stop fooling around and wasting time on this blog. You should be ashamed of yourself.

SOURCE ALERT
My Thirteen Strategies book goes into considerable detail on the how, why, computing, reporting, formatting, and who cares about those scores. This series will simply focus on the scores you can use to guide decisions about your teaching improvement.

GOAL OF BLOG SERIES
This blog series is intended to present the BerksNotes® version of student rating scale interpretation. Hopefully, by cutting to the chase, whatever that is, you’ll be able to get the most out of your scores in lickety-split time or faster. Hold on to your keyboards. My next blog will begin with an overview of the different types of scores.

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