Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty Pre-Tenure Evaluation Form Template

End-of-Semester "Common" Course Evaluation Form

Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback about your experience in this course. Teaching is highly valued at Amherst, and your reflections are an important part of our efforts to assess and improve our teaching. Please be thoughtful, fair, and honest. Your instructor will be able to view your responses only after final grades have been submitted, and to them your identity will be anonymous. As part of the reappointment, tenure, and promotion process, your responses will also be read by the president, provost and dean of the faculty, and other senior faculty, and to them your identity will not be anonymous.

Your Information

First Name:

Last Name:

Class Year:

This information will be removed before your instructor sees your evaluation.

For the questions below, please evaluate your own commitment to and effort exerted in the course.

1. How often did you::

Questions	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always
Prepare for class:	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always
Attend class:	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always
Participate in class:	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always
Complete assignments:	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always
Meet with professor outside of class:	never	rarely	sometimes	often	always

2. Using specific examples, please briefly describe what you did that was particularly effective for improving your learning in this course:

The following questions ask you to reflect upon the ways the course and instructor helped you to develop your thinking, skills, and abilities. Please provide specific details to support your reflections.

3. In what ways did this course and instructor stimulate or shape your intellectual interests, thinking, and/or imagination?:

4. Please describe the most significant skills and/or knowledge that you gained or further developed during this course:

The following questions ask you to reflect on how the course structure and your instructor’s teaching affected your learning in the course. Please provide specific examples to support your feedback.

5. Considering the overall design of the course, how did the pace, presentation of information, clarity of expectations, assignments, activities, and/or discussions in the course impact your learning?:

6. Please describe the nature of your interactions with the instructor in this course, including the instructor’s engagement with student questions and ideas in class, their cultivation of an inclusive learning environment, their availability outside class, and the feedback you received on your course work:

[Note that Question 7 is optional, and may be added to ask students to report on the ways a specific and required course component or activity (lab, discussion, crit session, field work, etc.) affected their learning - for example:] 7. Please reflect on [the discussions] in this course. How did this component impact your learning?:

Please use this space to provide any additional comments you have about this course and/or instructor.

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