I am in the process of creating course evaluation templates for our noncredit programming (low-risk, typically one day courses of 4-8 hours with 1-2 instructors and learning objectives). Most courses target working professionals, not your undergraduate or graduate student.
These templates have to be quick and easy to maintain as our staff has been cut so resources are limited. I need to make these friendly enough that novice users can administer the surveys with confidence. I have a general idea of how I will do this, but I want to get rid of assessing individual learning objectives since this would be one area that could complicate the set up of the survey and report.
My questions to the community are:
- Has anyone removed learning objectives from class assessments and how did you get the instructors on board?
- What questions did you replace them with?
- Are there any serious impacts of not rating individual learning objectives I should think about before doing so?
Many of our classes are "one off" and we don't know if we will teach them again. When we did rate learning objectives we just asked if the participant felt like the objective was met or not on a 5-point scale. Some questions we are thinking of replacing them with is:
- What is the most important thing you learned from this class?
- What were you expecting to learn that the class didn't cover?
Thank you in advance for your insight!
