New Evaluations for Students

By now you’re aware of the new evaluation slips being used in the clinic. We’ve adopted these for a dew reasons. First, as the college switches to a campus-wide computer management system we found out that there is no way to do “pass/fail” grading, so all courses, like the clinic courses, that were pass/fail must now be graded. More importantly, however, students have mentioned for some time that you want more feedback from clinicians, so these new evaluation forms kill two birds with one stone, contributing toward your grade as well as giving you the feedback you asked for!

The grading form takes a little more supervision from the clinician than the Palm Pilot evaluations, which you still need to continue doing. My best piece of advice is to make sure you get your evaluations done sooner than later. As the trimester goes on, we get busier, and toward the end of the trimester things are busy enough that we often cannot do evaluations to keep up with the pace. So, get started on them now or else you’ll likely run into trouble later.