Fall 2000 notables:

-highest overall mean evaluation

-highest score for question “my instructor clears up points of confusion for me”

-highest score for question “my instructor facilitates discussion among students”

“The format of lectures, notes and learning exercises appealed to my style of learning”

“She made learning easier by using different teaching techniques.”
“She gave more personal attention in a class of 250+ than many do with much smaller classes. She consistently made us feel that she wanted us to succeed and that she would go the extra distance to make that happen.”

“Dr. O’Loughlin is an excellent teacher. I speak as a humanities student who might turn to science if every science instructor were like her.”

The instructor evaluation is commonly used as both a quantitative and a qualitative measure. An end-of-course evaluation alone may not make a very compelling body of evidence in a study. However, when the evaluation is used in conjunction with a variety of quantitative and qualitative measures as in this SOTL project, a clear and compelling work of scholarship may result.