ELC 031: How To Do Course Evaluations The Right Way

Will Thalheimer, PhD, cares about improving the products that learning professionals create. He has spent years exploring the best ways to conduct a course evaluation and has compiled his findings in an excellent book, Performance-focused Smile Sheets: A Radical Rethinking of a Dangerous Art Form.



Will has worked in the learning-and-performance field for 30 years—as a trainer, instructional designer, simulation architect, project manager, business product line manager, speaker, writer, researcher, and consultant. Forming Work-Learning Research in 1998 to build bridges between research and practical wisdom, Will works to provide the workplace learning-and-performance field with research-based information, simultaneously helping clients create and deploy radically more effective learning interventions.



WE DISCUSS:



* Importance of measurement and course evaluation for instructional designers

* Correlation between smile sheets and learning

* When to get feedback during the instructional design process

* Different ways to get feedback

* Smile sheets defined

* Problems with traditional smile sheets

* Solutions to the problems with traditional smile sheets

* Types of questions and responses that work and don't work

* Four pillars of learning effectiveness

* The kinds of questions that allow us to get feedback on learning effectiveness

* The deeper message that smile sheets send

* Creating evaluation questions for low reading levels

* Delayed smile sheets

* Wow!



TIME: 24 minutes





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RESOURCES:



* Performance-focused Smile Sheets: A Radical Rethinking of a Dangerous Art Form by Will Thalheimer

* Smile Sheets: Book Website

* Work-Learning Research: Will's Consultancy

* Submit a smile sheet question to get evaluated by Will Thalheimer