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The Benefits, Impact and Process of Early Course Evaluations
Early course evaluations are a way to gauge how the semester is going for your students while there is time for you to make adjustments to the course and your teaching. Most professors prefer to administer the early course evaluations during the third through fifth weeks of a semester. Therese Huston says,
"Handing out an adapted . . . evaluation form during the first weeks of your course, when there is ample time to make changes based on students' input, is pretty brilliant" (Huston, 2009).