Teaching evaluation and student response rate

Abstract

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to share the author’s viewpoint on how to increase student response rate in course evaluation surveys. Design/methodology/approach - The approach is to highlight measures which increased student response rate in online surveys of the author’s teaching evaluation at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Findings - This viewpoint suggests that student response rate to course evaluation can be improved by the lecturer’s effective communication. The examples of effective communication are given in this paper. Originality/value - This work will encourage the lecturers to initiate more student engagement to improve response rate of their teaching evaluation.

Keywords

• Online survey
• Course evaluation
• Paper survey
• Response rate
• Teaching evaluation