My Terra broke so I bought a replacement off FB Marketplace. The Replacement came with one regular pink QC bottle and one that was blue but with a QC top. Any info? I initially thought it was a screw connect bottle and only noticed when preparing to give it away.
Posting in part bc Reddit search brought up a couple of threads where this combo was mentioned but discounted as misinformation.
[Summary. Online course evaluations at my school are awful. How can we convince admin to return to pencil and paper evals? Were you able to do this at your school?]
About a decade ago my university moved to online course evaluations. Faculty raised concerns over low response rates, to which admin waved their hands and said something about sample sizes. Five years ago they outsourced to a Explorance / Blue.
The experience has been unsatisfactory. Instructors, particularly junior faculty and lecturers, have become responsible for cajoling/bribing students into completing evals. If fewer than five student or 10% of the class responds, no course evaluation is issued ("Threshold not met"). The number of students leaving written feedback has plummeted. We've also had two semesters, out of the last five, where there were delays in opening evaluations for the students.
Many of us want to go back to paper course evaluations. The technology is bullet-proof, response rates are high, and you can direct the students to give specific feedback on the open-ended question at the end.
Has anyone here had experience with moving back to pencil and paper course evaluations? How did you convince admin to admit they were wrong and go back to a solution that worked, but which didn't provide them with "statistical insights" for "data-driven decision making"?