Table 1.
Feedback Coding Scheme: Direct Quotes from Student Evaluations to Illustrate Examples of Comments in each Category
Category | Examples |
---|---|
Reinforcing global (rg)* | Her patient interviews were engaging |
Extraordinary professor and lecturer | |
Had interesting things to say about all subjects | |
Some of the strongest lectures from the year | |
Thank you for all of your effort! | |
Reinforcing specific (rs)** | Very succinct about what is clinically important |
Thorough and easy to follow | |
Always stuck to the objectives | |
She breaks down a complex area in a clean way | |
I really enjoy the interactive nature of the lectures and the simulations given in class to demonstrate concepts | |
Corrective global (cg) | The syllabus section was quite inadequate |
It would be great if he did something to spice up his lectures | |
Students didn’t really seem to think her lectures were substantive enough | |
Some of the demos were not that useful | |
The powerpoint slides can be made more professional looking | |
Corrective specific (cs) | There are no bulleted key points that grasp my attention and focus my learning |
Try to answer fewer questions and finish the lecture materials | |
Syllabus material could have been greatly enhanced with diagrams in addition to the text | |
The syllabus section was hard to follow and correlate with the lectures |
*For example, “x was great” was coded as a ”reinforcing global” comment
**For example, “x was great, because she spoke slowly” was coded as a single (composite) specific reinforcing comment. The word "great" was not counted as global on its own