Feedback is essential for educational institutions and providers of continuing education, professional development, seminars and other courses. The quality, development and improvement of these programmes, and not least participant satisfaction, determine the success of the courses and the education provider itself. Feedback from students and other participants therefore plays a decisive role. They can assess the strengths and weaknesses of a course from the participant's perspective, evaluate their own learning and rate the lecturers. They can also contribute suggestions and provide impetus for change.
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Evaluate seminars and training courses: gather feedback
The overarching aim of evaluating classes and courses is generally to assure and improve quality. As part of their quality management, teaching and education providers can use a feedback questionnaire to determine which courses meet their own criteria and predefined minimum requirements, which services need improvement, and how participants assess the expertise of individual lecturers or teachers. The results of a feedback survey can also provide closer insight into the quality of teaching materials, the use of media and the teaching methods or combination of methods employed.
An online survey makes it easy, economical and time-efficient to obtain participant feedback. Teaching evaluations often focus on the following topics and areas of interest:
- Quality of documents, materials and presentations
- Practical relevance, benefits and applicability
- Strengths and weaknesses of the course or event
- Expertise of lecturers and teachers
- Learning gains and the measurement and analysis of learning outcomes
- Assessment of value for money
Advantages of online surveys over paper surveys
Online surveys offer several advantages over paper-and-pencil surveys. First, they require less effort: online questionnaires do not need to be printed, distributed, collected or returned by post and then scanned. Avoiding paper and printing also saves resources and costs.
Online evaluations also provide higher-quality data because there are fewer potential sources of error, such as illegible handwriting. Online surveys in education are also easy to access and take up less teaching time. Participants can open online questionnaires directly via a link or QR code and respond regardless of time and location, unless the survey is to be completed during the class or course itself.
Analysing online evaluations offers additional benefits. Responses are captured digitally, so no data has to be transferred from paper, and results are available in real time and automatically presented in clear charts. This makes the subsequent analysis much easier.
Teaching evaluation with live online surveys
A live online survey, in which participants evaluate a class or course while it is still taking place, provides immediate feedback. During the session, participants are asked to open the online survey on site and assess the course in progress. Live online teaching evaluations generally achieve high participation and response rates. If necessary, the feedback can also be taken into account before the session ends. If the results show, for example, that most participants prefer a particular learning or teaching format, it can be used more extensively. Weaknesses in the course can also be addressed promptly.
The same method can be used for webinars and other online classes or distance-learning courses. Teachers and learners do not have to be physically present in the same room to gather this kind of feedback.
Advantages of live online surveys at a glance:
Measure learning outcomes with comparative self-assessment
Measuring learning outcomes is often a key objective of educational events. Alongside conventional tests and assessments, online surveys can be used for this purpose. Participants can assess their own learning, for example. In a comparative self-assessment, they rate their level of knowledge or ability both at the beginning and at the end of a course. The results can then be compared and analysed.
A comparative self-assessment can also be conducted once at the end of the course. In this case, the questionnaire asks participants to assess their current level after completing the course and to look back and assess their level before it began. The changes can then be analysed, including for statistical significance.
Feedback forms: templates for teaching and seminar evaluation
Copy these free questionnaires and feedback forms for course participants to your LamaPoll account with a single click. You can then edit them and adapt them to the particular class or course. The templates can also be customised to match your corporate design, including your logo, colours and typography.
Online questionnaires provide a cost- and time-efficient way to gather participant feedback. You also benefit from clear visual reports, with results available in real time.
More samples and templates for educational institutions, education providers and organisations offering continuing education, retraining and professional development can be found in our questionnaire templates for education section.
TÜV Thüringen Akademie has been working successfully with LamaPoll since 2021. The support team deserves special mention: when we were systematically processing participant feedback as part of quality management, it was always on hand at short notice, easy to deal with and highly competent. Having compared providers, we find the value for money unbeatable, and we are highly satisfied with the results. The professional handling of data protection is also worth mentioning.
I thought your application was really well made. I had a lot of fun creating my survey and was able to find my way around quickly and intuitively. Keep it up!
LamaPoll’s software is an excellent and versatile tool for a large non-profit private school. Sending individual links greatly increased parents’ participation rate in surveys. The ability to design finely branched questionnaires in the Gold plan is remarkable. It also makes it possible to collect all information from families with several children in a single survey.
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