Mid Semester Survey: An Alternate for the End of Semester Evaluation for Engineering Courses

Student Evaluation of Teaching is typically used as a measure of an instructor’s performance and has been the focus of many previous studies. In this work, the end of semester Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) indices was compared with Mid Semester Informal Evaluation (MIE) indices. For the comparison, the undergraduate student evaluation data of an instructor in the area of engineering were collected. These data were then compared statistically using student t-distribution at 95% confidence level. The results indicate that no significant difference exist between SET and MIE indices, suggesting that that a midterm survey data is reliable to predict the teaching performance of an instructor and student’s satisfaction by instructor’s teaching. Among 306 surveyed data, only 11% of the data are found to be statistically different. The difference between SET and MIE in the remaining 89% of the data is found to be statistically insignificant. Through this work, a strong co-relation between SET and MIE indices are observed.