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Dear students,

Teaching is evaluated among other things to give you the opportunity to provide qualified feedback on the courses taught. In doing so you are making an important contribution toward improving the teaching at the TUHH.

Please find below some information that is important for making this process as transparent as possible. There are also some tips we would like you to follow to make our lives a little easier and improve the quality of the data collected. If you have any further questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

At present all courses that the course schedule shows as lectures, tutorials, seminars, laboratories or practical courses are supposed to be evaluated. Language courses are generally excluded.

For planning purposes, at the start of the semester we take the data once from the schedule of courses. We ask the teaching staff of all the courses included how many evaluation questionnaires they require. We therefore depend both on the quality of data in the schedule and on receiving replies from lecturers. In our experience, both are very dependable.

If a course that you attend is not evaluated, however, please speak to us directly, or better still to the lecturers.

The idea is to collect data during the core survey period, in principle the 10th and 11th semester week, not counting vacation weeks. During this period, lecturers take the questionnaires they have been sent to classes with them and ask you to fill them out. The completed questionnaires are then collected in immediately and returned to us for analysis.

For the core survey period, we have chosen a time when as many of you as possible are actively attending lectures in the run up to preparing for examinations, and which leaves sufficient time after analysis for teaching staff to discuss the results with you in a subsequent lecture or tutorial.

We always make efforts to take account of (block) courses that are held outside the core collection period.

At present three different questionnaraire types are used depending on what kind of course is evaluated. For further information please see here. The questionnaire is analyzed automatically, so here are some tips on completing it which we would kindly request you to follow.

First, the most important:

• Write or mark only inside the relevant fields. We cannot record crosses outside the boxes, notes on an exercise group outside the number field, or criticism and suggestions outside the comment boxes.
• Leave the exercise group evaluation block empty if there is no exercise to accompany a lecture. If you cross it out, the analysis software may identify your line as a cross.
• Leave any comment field you do not need empty and do not cross them out. The system identifies comment fields that have been crossed out as not empty and your lecturer may have to work his or her way through very many more field with not real information in them.

Other things that make our work easier:

• Please make your crosses as neat as possible. If you want to alter anything, please cross out the old answer as shown on the questionnaire.
• Use a blue or black pen and do not press too hard. The questionnaire is printed on both sides and marks or impressions that show through make it difficult to process the questionnaires automatically.
• If there is an exercise to accompany a lecture, please write your exercise group number in the relevant field. If there is only one group, the number should be 1. If there are several groups we ask the lecturer in advance to prepare a list that numbers the various groups consecutively. If necessary, ask your lecturer about this. However, please note that it is up to lecturers to decide whether they wish to distinguish between different exercise groups. If not, enter a 1 in the field.

After we have analyzed the questionnaires we promptly e-mail an analysis of all questions to the lecturer and ask him or her to discuss the findings with you in one of the subsequent classes.

If the lecturer should fail to discuss the findings with you and you would like to discuss them, please speak to your lecturer in the first instance. Only if this fails persistently to achieve the desired result are we prepared to intercede.

At the end of the semester, a general list of the results of Question 10, Overall Evaluation of the Course, are published here (requires authentification). In addition to lecturers, the deans of studies und student councils of the relevant deans’ offices can inspect the detailed analyses of all questions and comment fields.