02 December
wrap up & evaluations
Hans Rosling on global population growth
Our Swedish friend again, this time in France, looking again at available information, and projecting futures. Can we do something similar?
You were asked to think about these issues
- what have we done this semester?
- do you feel that you know yourself any better?
- do you feel that you know anything more about "the other"?
- what do you plan to do with your newly gained understanding, if in fact you gained any?
But, there are two evaluation forms...
① Carolina Course Evaluation
As you may know, the University has been transitioning in many administrative systems. And the course evaluations this year will also be done through one of the newer softwares applications.
Starting this semester, course evaluations will be handled by a system called Class Climate. Everything - from email reminders to data compilation – will be done through Class Climate. You can expect to see that evaluations will go out the morning of Tuesday, 02 December. From there Class Climate will handle the rest; it will notify and remind students that they must complete their evaluations. Evaluations will end Saturday, 13 December.
If it is anything like it used to be, it will be a set of 30 closed-ended questions. You may complete this form at your leisure, but it would also be very appropriate for you to complete it in class on the last scheduled session. The CCE results are used for promotion decisions within the School.
For SILS courses, you may have three extra questions to answer online as well.
- The instructor's command of the subject matter was excellent
- My interest in the subject has increased
- The pace at which the instructor covered the material was appropriate
② SILS Teaching Evaluation
As part of the Class Climate course evaluation process at the end of the semester, SILS has its own evaluation questionnaire for its courses. This questionnaire was originally developed by ILSSA. The questions are open-ended and allow you to provide more specific comments about each course. The responses to these questionnaires are aggregated and then distributed to the instructor for the course. They are seen by no one else at SILS, and are intended solely for the instructor to improve this particular course or his/her teaching in general. In order to serve that purpose, the instructor needs to hear from each of you.
Please read the first question carefully as it needs to be filled out in the exact form specified depending on the course. For this course, fill in "758_001".
Comments on the SILS form will only be shared with the instructor.
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