Teacher Report Card Part 2 - Results

Earlier this year I blogged about the Teacher Report Card I gave my students and some of the preliminary feedback.  Here are the final results from my eighth grade math students.  I did not use the teacher report card with my functional math students.

Participation:

This survey was sent to students as a Google form.  Students were told that the survey was anonymous (unless of course they wrote their name in one of the responses - I was surprised that several students did that).  I knew how many students in each class period took the survey, but not which students.  About half of all my students participated.

Period C: 16/28 students

Period FG: 16/29 students

Period J: 12/28 students 

The first part of the report card survey asked students to rate the truth about statements related to my teaching.  Students used ratings from 1 to 5: 1 being Not At All True and 5 being Definitely True.  Statements included things like, "I think Ms. Ess encourages questions" or "I think Ms. Ess gives quizzes/tests that reflect the material in the unit" or "I think Ms. Ess cares about me."  I used and modified the Teacher Report Card that Mr. Vaudrey tweeted about here.  For the full list of statements I used, keep scrolling to the table below.

Overall, about 75% of each class gave me 4s and 5s (those are the good ones!).  The next graph breaks down student responses by statement, rather than overall class summaries.

The table below shows the ratings as percentages.  Now these are a tiny bit inflated because I can't actually earn 0% with this scale (5/5 is 100% and 1/5 is 20%).  Nevertheless, it is fairly representative of the actual results and much easier than trying to modify the scale now that responses are in.  In the future, I might change the rating scale to 0 to 4.  Or maybe even use the SBG scale we use for grading quizzes...!  In which case I probably would not display the results as percentages.  I'm turning into my students who desperately want the percentage written at the top of their quiz!  Old habits die hard, right?  I digress...

Ms. Ess...	Period C	Period FG	Period J	Average
... dresses professionally.	94.67%	95.00%	86.67%	92.11%
...respects each student.	91.25%	95.00%	86.67%	90.97%
...gives quizzes/tests that reflect the material in the unit.	90.67%	90.00%	91.67%	90.78%
...encourages questions.	85.33%	88.75%	90.00%	88.03%
...listens to our ideas.	85.33%	87.50%	90.00%	87.61%
... seems to enjoy teaching.	92.00%	88.00%	81.67%	87.22%
... uses language that we can understand.	81.25%	84.00%	91.67%	85.64%
...praises good behavior.	78.75%	82.67%	95.00%	85.47%
... provides time for review of material.	86.67%	81.25%	88.33%	85.42%
... tries to see the student's point of view.	87.50%	87.50%	78.33%	84.44%
...praises good work.	82.67%	81.25%	86.67%	83.53%
... treats me as an individual.	82.50%	83.75%	81.67%	82.64%
...says her words clearly.	76.25%	80.00%	91.67%	82.64%
...grades fairly.	85.33%	73.75%	88.33%	82.47%
... gives good, fair assignments.	81.43%	76.25%	89.09%	82.26%
...leads good class discussions.	81.33%	85.33%	80.00%	82.22%
...encourages me to be responsible.	76.25%	85.00%	83.33%	81.53%
... tries new teaching methods.	86.67%	73.75%	81.67%	80.70%
...gives enough time for assignments.	81.33%	76.25%	83.33%	80.30%
...answers questions completely.	82.50%	80.00%	76.67%	79.72%
... makes me feel important.	75.00%	83.75%	80.00%	79.58%
...encourages different opinions.	81.33%	76.25%	78.33%	78.64%
... does a good job of treating all students the same.	86.25%	72.50%	75.00%	77.92%
...has interesting lessons.	76.00%	72.50%	81.67%	76.72%
... has a great sense of humor.	66.25%	85.00%	78.33%	76.53%
... cares about me.	76.25%	80.00%	73.33%	76.53%
...has a good pace (not too fast or too slow).	78.67%	68.75%	81.67%	76.36%
... explains topics clearly.	73.75%	77.50%	76.67%	75.97%
... gives fair punishments.	73.33%	75.00%	76.67%	75%
... tells us our learning goals.	77.33%	75.00%	71.67%	74.67%
... keeps the class under control without being too tough.	69.33%	53.75%	72.73%	65.27%

The second part of the report card survey was open response.  Here are the questions.  Again, I added to Mr. Vaudrey's original Teacher Report Card and included the Keep, Change, Start, Stop reflection questions from Sarah Carter.

If you're interested, you can view a table of all student responses here.

This post has been rather long and it took a lot of formatting for me to show responses here.  With that said, I'll save my analysis and interpretation of these results for another day when my mind is fresher.  Stay tuned!