A Useful End-of-Semester Physics Course Assessment Survey

This scantron-based survey examines the teacher-learner collaboration. It includes questions which probe student preparedness, behaviors, attitudes, and expectations – as well as questions addressing key measures of excellence in teaching and course structure. We find that the most valuable information is revealed when survey responses are displayed at the level of individual students - for it is there that we find data which we can use to improve our guidance of student learning and cognitive development. Bar graphs are used to look for any interdependence between responses to pairs of survey questions. By thus examining the data in its entirety, we obtain insights which might inform future students, as well as faculty and administrators.