My intention was to drop that self-audit on Saturday and then catch comments on Monday ’cause the blogsphere is supposed to hibernate over the weekend. Then I filmed an Indian wedding all of Saturday (crazy-fun. one of the coolest weddings I’ve shot.) came home at 23h00 and crashed, totally missing all the commentary you guys threw back and forth.

Including, but not limited to:

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This was the first year I gave course evaluations. I probably chose this year because it was a pretty good one and I figured I’d receive mostly positive marks. Lame, right, but not as bad as it sounds.

Fact is, I wobbled out of my first two years, hitting my door’s crash-bar shoulder-first, staggering out into the sun with a long list of Things Not To Mess Up Next Year underarm.

I had the same wobbly feeling this last spring but a much shorter list. I needed student contributions so I adapted a college course survey for high school math and passed it out. I had a student collect the completed surveys and put them in an envelope. I told my students they should keep their anonymity and that I wouldn’t check ’em, anyway, until after grades froze. And I didn’t.

Here’s the survey in pdf.

Every question ran along the Likert scale from Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5). Here are the results, a little commentary, and full disclosure.

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