This Week In Library School

For the past few weeks I’ve been soliciting information from other LIS schools around the country about their course/instructor evaluations. Of the 15 schools that I’ve sent emails to, I’ve got responses from 9 of them (so far). It’s interesting to note that only one of these 9 allows their students to view the completed evaluations (and with heavy restrictions). The rest of them don’t even allow a view of the final reports.
I think we should consider ourselves lucky for having access to both the paper evaluations (outside the Lounge) and the LISSA website (http://gslis.simmons.edu/evaluations).

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We have made improvements to the LISSA’s Online Evaluation website (available at gslis.simmons.edu/evaluations): an extra column was added with a simple average for all the instructors teaching a course (surprisingly, it is called “Course average”) and the averages for Question no. 9 have been tweaked to make them a little bit more descriptive (and hopefully, more useful).

Check them out, (ab)use them, let me know what you think!

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It seems that very few incoming students are aware of the evaluations that we are all filling at the end of the semester, available in paper format in the binders outside the Lounge, and in electronic format on the companion website (at http://gslis.simmons.edu/evaluations). Take a look at the binders, explore the website, let us know what you think – what you like, what you dislike, what do you find the most useful, etc.

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We (that is, LISSA) strongly believe that you have the right (and responsibility) to make an informed decision when choosing your courses. These tools (along with your adviser and your fellow students) are an invaluable source of information that will make choosing a course a lot less stressful.

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