Engineering’s move away from paper-based course evaluations is off to a strong start. In winter 2016, we had an overall response rate of 58.8% in undergraduate Course Critiques. This is just 2.9% lower than the winter 2015 response rate, and that’s pretty impressive. Many institutions have experienced a significant decline when moving to electronic evaluations. In fact, other UWaterloo faculties have reported a much bigger drop in response rate since transitioning to the same online platform (evaluate.uwaterloo.ca). Our high response rates can likely be attributed to the Waterloo Engineering tradition of active student engagement with the Course Critiques process. And for this, we thank you!
We are interested in hearing about your experience with the Course Critiques process; did you like the online platform? Do you have any questions or suggestions about the process? Did you come across any bugs? Should we be doing something differently? Send us an email at engineering.teaching@uwaterloo.ca and let us know!
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