Corey Whitacre's Blog

The article I chose is Online vs. Traditional Course Evaluation Formats: Student Perceptions. The reason I chose this article is because just from the title and later on reading through the content I was actually able to relate to the article and its points.

            The article talks about the many pros and cons of offering end-of-course evaluations in an electronic format or in traditional scan sheet format. This discussion stirred very many different viewpoints. A pro for offering evaluations on-line is that the evaluations online saves time and money and returns the results to faculty more quickly. This is mostly pro for faculty and administrator. As for students offering end-of-course evaluations in an electronic format is also a pro due to convenience. The report shows that there is a difference in responses of the research. The difference mostly comes from the demographics of gender, experience with online evaluations, and program level.

            I think offering end-of-course evaluations in an electronic format are a good idea vs. the traditional format. I like the ideal of saves time and money and returns the results to faculty more quickly and convenience to the students. I know that many students may just ignore completing the form by deleting the e-mail or whatever method they would use to get out of doing it. But, many students in the class do not fill out the traditional one either. Online may give students more time to reflect and give more meaningful feedback.