How may teachers better understand their student ratings?
Questions 1-4 and 6-9 are formative and best understood by the teacher in the context of the particular classroom. Questions 5 and 10 are comparable within departments and across campus; they essentially summarize the other 8 questions. For each question there is a mean score, score distribution, and a percentile ranking of the score in comparison with: (1) all courses in the department and (2) with all responses for all classes (10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentiles.) The 3 long-answer written ‘comments’ are intended primarily for the faculty.
