Talking about SETs with a Writer and a Neuroscientist

Appraisals of the benefits and uses of student evaluations, or SETs (Student Experience of Teaching Surveys), vary. But whatever our own views, SETs remain one of the standardized and widespread institutional approaches to measure a course's perceived effectiveness at the precise moment of evaluation. They can also provide productive feedback for a faculty member thinking of revising a course, an approach, or an activity. For this reasons and many more, we should pay attention to how to set-up the day of evaluation.

Join us for a titillating lunch-time conversation with faculty members Tom Hopkins (Creative Writing) and Chris Howard (Neuroscience) to talk about how they set-up and frame SETs for students so that they too see them as more than a bureaucratic hurdle. Both Tom H. and Chris H. have very high student feedback response rates, how do they do it? I don't know yet! Come and find out their secrets (and share yours, please).

RSVP for lunch by Nov. 12 - email Polly Bratton, administrative assistant of the Gertrudge B. Lemle Center for Teaching and Scholarship, at pbratton@oberlin.edu.