tuesday, november 17, 1931
daily nebraskan
page 3
Midterm evaluations give
professors time to change
By Jeff Goodwin
UNL faculty members have a chance
to improve their teaching methods mid
semester instead of waiting for year-end
evaluations because of a midterm stu
dent feedback program directed by the
Teaching and Learning Center.
Delivee Wright, TLC director, esti
mated that more than half of the univer
sity's faculty have used the TLC in one
way or another.
Wright said the midterm feedback
program is designed to help teachers
pinpoint their classroom problems.
The feedback takes two forms.
In the first, the students complete
questionnaires, the results of which are
analyzed and passed on to the teacher.
Joyce Povlacs, faculty instructional
consultant, said the questionnaire is
used in an attempt to answer three
questions - what's going well, what's
not going well and what can be done to
improve it.
'These are useful because they get a
lot of conversation going," Povlacs said.
The second method is the use of
small groups which discuss what they
like and dislike about a class and how it
can be improved.
"One method is not intrinsically
better than the other," Povlacs said.
"The questionnaire gives us individual
student response and the small groups
give us a feeling of consensus."
Povlacs said some instructors add a
question at the end of an exam asking
for comments about the class.
She said the TLC also has a proced
ure for following up the initial question
naire to see if positive results have been
achieved.
She said the value of the program lies
in its immediacy.
"It affects the learning going on at
the moment," she said. "End-of-course
evaluations often seem like a waste of
time to many students."
Povlacs said many instructors come
to the TLC after hearing about it from
colleagues.
"We get a lot of new faculty memb
ers by word of mouth," she said.
Povlacs said the TLC also conducts a
seminar each fall for new faculty memb
ers to tell them about the resources TLC
has to offer.
Charles chosen Miss Black UNL
More than 300 spectators witnessed the
crowning of the new Miss Black UNL at a
pageant Sunday in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom. Judges chose Doreen Charles as
the new queen from a field of 12 contest
ants. Charles, a 2 1 -year-old senior journalism
major from Chicago, will represent UNL
blacks while visiting other campuses.
Charles said she will attend the Big Eight
Conference of Black Student Governments
at Iowa State University in February.
Contestants were judged on criteria in
cluding talent, poise and leadership.
Charles is the Afrikan Peoples Union com
munity coordinator, a Daily Nebraskan
columnist and a former ASUN senator.
Runners-up were:
-1st runner-up Wendi Ann Triplett, a
senior life sciences, pre-med major from
Omaha.
-2nd runner-up liana Searcy, a fresh
man communications major, and a member
of the UNL Scarlet and Cream Singers,
from Jackson, Miss. She was also selected
as Miss Personality.
3rd runner-up Patti West, a junior
urban studies major from Omaha.
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place to watch your favorite soap.
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to be continued .
Political economist talks
on policy of public lands
John Baden, director of the Center for Political
Economy at Montana State University, will deliver the
third lecture in a seven-lecture series at UNL dealing with
the future of private and governmental security programs.
Baden's lecture on "Public Lands Policy? What Legacy
for the Future?" will be Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the
Peter Kiewit Conference Center in Omaha. Two of the
seven lecturers are scheduled in Omaha.
The UNL College of Business Administration's Depart
ment of Economics and the Center for the Study of the
American Business System is hosting the series, funded by
a grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation administered
through the Association of Private Enterprise Education.
Admission to the lecture is by free tickets, available
from the UNL Center for the Study of the American Bus
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