Using Student Self-Evaluations to Assist in Academic Achievement

• In Event: Efforts to Improve Student Performance in Criminology Classrooms

Abstract

One tool to potentially assist students in putting forth maximum effort in a course is to have the students do a Mid-Semester Self-Evaluation. This evaluation allows them to assess what they believe they have been doing right or wrong in their coursework to date, and what they believe they can change for themselves, for the second half of the semester, in order to obtain the highest possible final grade for that course. Moreover, an End-Semester Self-Evaluation survey allows the students to assess how well they met their mid-semester evaluation goals. The purpose of this study is to assess student mid-semester evaluations, their end-semester evaluations, and their overall scores to determine how well students met their self-set challenges.

Author

• George Coroian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology