Eva­lua­ti­on

Eva­lua­ti­on is an im­portant in­stru­ment for en­su­ring and de­ve­lo­ping the qua­li­ty of stu­dies and tea­ching and looks at tea­ching as a who­le. Tea­ching eva­lua­ti­ons pro­vi­de lec­tu­rers with feed­back on stu­dents' im­pres­si­ons of their cour­ses, or stu­dents are as­ked about their ex­pe­ri­en­ces du­ring their stu­dies - e.g. the de­gree pro­grams and their struc­tures.

Eva­lua­ti­on as a ba­sis for dia­log and de­ve­lop­ment

The in­for­ma­ti­on ob­tai­ned can be used to re­flect on one's own tea­ching be­ha­vi­or or to fur­ther de­ve­lop stu­dies and de­gree pro­grams. Spe­ci­fic tar­get groups such as alum­ni or to­pics such as the di­gi­tal se­mes­ter can also be­co­me the fo­cus of eva­lua­ti­ons and their re­sults can be used to re­flect on in­sti­tu­tio­nal is­su­es.

Eva­lua­ti­on re­sults of­fer a good op­por­tu­ni­ty to en­ter into a dia­log with stu­dents and staff - this can help to en­su­re and, if ne­cessa­ry, im­pro­ve the qua­li­ty of your own cour­ses and tea­ching as a who­le.

Re­gu­lar dead­lines

The re­gis­tra­ti­on dead­line for eva­lua­ti­ons is al­ways be­fo­re the start of the re­spec­tive se­mes­ter:

• Dead­line for eva­lua­ti­ons in the sum­mer se­mes­ter: March 1
• Dead­line for eva­lua­ti­ons in the win­ter se­mes­ter: Au­gust 1

The eva­lua­ti­on at the HfMDK Frank­furt pur­su­es the fol­lo­wing goals:

• Pro­mo­te com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on about tea­ching and stu­dy struc­tures
• In­crea­se awa­reness of tea­ching is­su­es and stu­dy struc­tures
• Streng­t­hen strengths and coun­ter­act weak­nes­ses
• To com­pa­re ex­ter­nal and self-as­sess­ments
• tar­ge­ted pro­mo­ti­on of po­si­ti­ve (lear­ning) ef­fec­ts
• Sup­port the fur­ther de­ve­lop­ment of tea­ching and in­sti­tu­tio­nal frame­work con­di­ti­ons

In ad­di­ti­on, the eva­lua­ti­on ser­ves to iden­ti­fy de­ve­lop­ment po­ten­ti­al and to de­sign and im­ple­ment mea­su­res to en­su­re and pro­mo­te qua­li­ty.

The fol­lo­wing eva­lua­ti­on me­thods are cur­r­ent­ly used at the HfMDK Frank­furt:

• Cour­se eva­lua­ti­on with ques­ti­onn­aires and TAP
• for­ma­ti­ve cour­se eva­lua­ti­ons
• in­di­vi­du­al pro­ce­du­res that can be de­ve­lo­ped and car­ri­ed out in con­sul­ta­ti­on with the staff of the Eva­lua­ti­on Of­fice
• Sur­veys on spe­ci­fic to­pics such as the di­gi­tal se­mes­ter or the Bo­lo­gna Pro­cess
• Sur­veys of spe­ci­fic tar­get groups (e.g. alum­ni, first-year stu­dents, tea­ching staff, ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on)

Eva­lua­ti­ons at the HfMDK Frank­furt are car­ri­ed out stric­t­ly in ac­cordance with the De­GE­val gui­de­li­nes and in com­pli­an­ce with cur­rent data pro­tec­tion re­gu­la­ti­ons.

For fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on and spe­ci­fic im­ple­men­ta­ti­on, plea­se con­tact the staff at the Eva­lua­ti­on Of­fice. In ad­di­ti­on, you will find fur­ther va­lu­able tips for ob­tai­ning feed­back for your cour­se un­der the fol­lo­wing link: Me­thods kit (Uni­ver­si­ty of Duis­burg-Es­sen)