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In the summer of 2002, I was introduced to the free on-line assessment tool called Student Assessment of Learning Gains or SALG, and have been using it every semester to get additional data from my students. I have the students log in using their lastname-firstname so I can give them credit for doing the evaluation. The SALG tool then disconnects the name with the data so that I can never link a name with a response. This is a very thorough assessment of how the students feel about their learning. I also have the opportunity to change the SALG to meet the needs of my particular class. Here are the data and student comments from 243 students (100% of my class after Qdrops and withdraws).
One can also add extra questions at the end, which I did. I wanted to know how my students liked the writing/critiquing assignments using Calibrated Peer Review. From this data, I saw that although only 19% of the class enjoy the writing assignments, 46% thought they learned some chemistry, 41% thought their writing skills improved and 64% thought the assignments helped them learn to critique better.
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