Student feedback on teaching is an important component of faculty development. It can take several years for faculty to develop their own teaching style. The Student Feedback on Teaching is a survey designed to provide feedback to faculty about the teaching practices that are most effective at helping students learn.
Results from a single course may provide some useful feedback if the participation rate was greater than 65%. However, before any conclusions can be made about one’s teaching effectiveness, one would have to look at the results of several classes over a 3-year period.
If faculty would like to have a discussion about survey results, they can contact the Faculty Development Specialist in the Centre for Teaching & Learning. The role of faculty development is to provide confidential support to the faculty on teaching effectiveness.
Student access to Institutional Research (IR) administered surveys
Student access of internal Mohawk surveys are available one of three ways (where applicable):
- Direct e-mail sent to their "@mohawkcollege.ca" e-mail account for all surveys
- "Available Surveys" channel on MyMohawk Welcome page, AND
- "Course Evaluation" tab on MyCanvas.
Students are encouraged to evaluate all of their courses. Surveys can be completed on any smart device with internet 24-7 during the survey period(s). The surveys are accessible and are AODA compliant.
Faculty and course summary reports
Summarized reports for course surveys administered by Institutional Research (IR) are available 2-ways:
- E-mail from Institutional Research when reports are 1st released
- Employee tab in MyMohawk (bottom right – Survey Reports for Staff channel)
Survey and report access/technical issues
Contact surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (subject: SFT%20survey%20or%20report%20access%2Ftechnical%20issues) (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) for any technical or access issues with internal surveys and reports. Please do not contact the IT Help Desk, as they are not involved with internal surveys.
Types of Student Feedback on Teaching Surveys:
Post-secondary (PSE) day program courses (most)
| Categories | Details |
|---|---|
| Survey Timelines |
Last 2.5 weeks of a course (survey open for 21-days)
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| Survey Administrator | Mohawk's Institutional Research Department (IR) |
| Survey Anonymity |
Results are confidential and anonymous outside of IR.
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| Access to Survey Results |
Faculty have access to course survey participation rates while the survey is open until reports are released.
Faculty, their Associate Dean and Dean have access to summarized survey results + exact wording typed in by students for the open-ended questions |
| Release of Survey Results |
Reports are available to faculty and their supervisor(s) after student grades are released
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| Questions or Technical Issues | E-mail: surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) |
Clinical/Practicum/Placement courses (limited)
| Categories | Details |
|---|---|
| Courses Surveyed | Specific courses in our Allied Health and Nursing Departments |
| Survey Timelines |
Depends on program:
Allied Health courses are survey towards the last couple of weeks of the course (survey open for 14-days)
Practical Nursing courses are survey during the same period as the other post-secondary courses (survey open for 21-days)
Personal Support Worker courses are surveyed the last 3-weeks of course (survey open for 21-days)
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| Survey Administrator | Mohawk's Institutional Research Department (IR) |
| Survey Anonymity |
Results are confidential and anonymous outside of IR.
An exception is the Allied Health clinical/practicum/placement course student survey which releases individual student results to the clinical/practicum/placement co-ordinator(s) in order to deal with any clinical/practicum/placement site issues (Only the clinical/practicum/placement co-ordinator(s) see these detailed results). All other reports are summarized.
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| Access to Survey Results |
Faculty have access to course survey participation rates while survey is open, until reports are released.
Faculty and their Associate Dean have access to summarized survey results + exact wording typed in by students for the open-ended questions
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| Release of Survey Results |
Reports are available to clinical/practicum/placement co-ordinator(s), faculty and their supervisor(s) after student grades are released
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| Questions or Technical Issues | E-mail: surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) |
BScN courses taught by Mohawk Faculty
| Categories | Details |
|---|---|
| Courses Surveyed |
Only BScN courses taught by Mohawk faculty and not surveyed by McMaster
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| Survey Timelines |
Same survey period as McMaster
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| Survey Administrator |
Mohawk's Institutional Research Department (IR)
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| Survey Anonymity |
Results are confidential and anonymous outside of IR.
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| Access to Survey Results |
Faculty have access to course survey participation rates while survey is open, until reports are released.
Faculty, their Associate Dean and Dean have access to summarized survey results + exact wording typed in by students for the open-ended questions.
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| Release of Survey Results |
Reports are available to faculty and their supervisor(s) after the Associate Dean of Nursing approves the report release.
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| Questions or Technical Issues | E-mail: surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) |
Continuing Education Courses
| Categories | Details |
|---|---|
| Courses Surveyed |
The following criteria is followed to determine courses being surveyed:
- Greater than 10 hrs - 5 students or more are enrolled - At least 7-days between course start and end dates - The course has not already finished prior to survey being activated - Course is cross-listed with a PSE course being surveyed (regardless of other criteria) - Program Manager / Associate Dean / Dean requests course surveyed (regardless of other criteria)
Following course types are exempt from the survey:
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| Survey Timelines |
85% of course completion, if duration is greater than 89 days, then the last 2-weeks of the course. Survey is open for 14-days
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| Survey Administrator |
Mohawk's Institutional Research Department (IR)
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| Survey Anonymity |
Results are confidential and anonymous outside of IR.
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| Access to Survey Results |
Faculty have access to course survey participation rates while survey is open, until reports are released.
Faculty, their Program Manager and Dean have access to summarized survey results + exact wording typed in by students for the open-ended questions
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| Release of Survey Results |
Reports are available to faculty and their supervisor(s) after student course grades are released.
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| Questions or Technical Issues | E-mail: surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) |
Apprenticeship Courses
| Categories | Details |
|---|---|
| Courses Surveyed | Academic Area determines which class codes are surveyed. Survey is set-up based on class codes with all teachers attached surveyed. |
| Survey Timelines | Last 14 days of classes |
| Survey Administrator | Mohawk's Institutional Research Department (IR) |
| Survey Anonymity | Results are confidential and anonymous outside of IR |
| Access to Survey Results | Faculty, their Associate Dean and Dean have access to summarized survey results + exact wording typed in by students for the open-ended questions |
| Release of Survey Results | Reports are available to faculty and their supervisor(s) after student grades are released and at the discretion of the Academic Area. |
| Questions or Technical Issues | E-mail: surveys [at] mohawkcollege.ca (surveys[at]mohawkcollege[dot]ca) |