Course Feedback Survey Results Audit for Instructors

Read student feedback without over-reading a few comments.

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Audit course feedback results. The ratings per question and the number of responses, plus a sample of comments: [FEEDBACK_RESULTS]. Class size: [CLASS_SIZE]. Changes I made this term: [CHANGES_MADE].

Calculate the response rate, the average and distribution for each question, and the change from last term if I give it, with the arithmetic. Group comments into themes with counts and keep two quotes per theme. Identify what a small number of strongly worded comments can and cannot tell me. Make a table with Theme, Count, Evidence, Possible action, and Check. Propose three changes, how I will test each next term, and how to tell students what I did with their feedback.

Do not identify individual students. Mark institutional processes [VERIFY].

Add a worked example: 31 of 80 students responded (38.8 percent); 'The pace was right' average 3.4 of 5, 'Feedback was useful' 4.2; two of nine comments say the pace was too fast. Describe what this can and cannot show, and propose a mid-term pulse check of two questions next term.

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Response rate: 31 of 80 = 38.8 percent. 'The pace was right' average 3.4 of 5; 'Feedback was useful' 4.2.
Comment themes: pace (2 of 9), feedback helpful (4 of 9), more examples (3 of 9).
What this can show: students who answered mostly found feedback useful. What it cannot show: views of the 49 who did not respond.
Changes to test next term: add a mid-term pulse check of two questions; slow the middle three weeks.
Plan: share the headline results with students, say which two changes will be tried, and ask the same two pulse questions in week 6 so the comparison is like for like. Do not treat one comment as a trend.

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