STUDENTS FEEDBACK COMMITTEE

   studentsfeedback@tagoredch.in

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF FEEDBACK

• Assess and promote excellence in the teaching/learning process
• Meet the educational needs of students and community by continually monitoring instructional performance.
• Provide a constructive framework for evaluating faculty performance by identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement in classroom instruction.
• Provide a basis for professional growth and development
• Contributing to monitoring and review of quality and standards
• Ensuring the effectiveness of course design and delivery
• Enabling a dialogue with students
• Helping students reflect upon their experiences
• As part of the teaching and learning process
• Identifying good practice
• Measuring student satisfaction
• Contributing to staff development

The functions of the feedback committee are as follows:

• Formulating a feedback questionnaire to assess the teaching system
• Distributing the forms to the students and collecting it back through the staff members
• Analysis of the feedback forms
• Discussing the forms with the staff members
• Formulating effective measures to improve and enhance the learning process
• Formulate or modify the curriculum in association with Dental Education Unit.
• Recommendations about improving faculty performances.
• Conduct Faculty Training Programs.

MECHANISM OF OBTAINING FEEDBACK AND ANALYSIS

A questionnaire on feedback on Teaching and Teachers is prepared by the Students Feedback Committee and discussed with the Principal for corrections and alterations. This is then printed or photocopied and distributed to the staff members. Necessary alterations are made on the advice of other staff members or management and fresh one prepared for the subsequent year.

Feedback is generally obtained by distributing questionnaire to the students in the class. This is generally done twice a year. Every staff member gets a feedback about his or her performance form the students at the end of the class, anytime in the year. They are marked anonymously by students selected at random (at least about 70-80% of students who volunteer for the same).

The scored sheets are then sent to the administrative office for computing. The result sheets are given to the HOD to take corrective action and counsel the staff. The results are then obtained by the feedback committee and comparative performances are analysed. The strengths and weakness of each staff are analysed and report prepared and submitted to the Principal for further action. We distinguish between positive and negative feedback. We define positive feedback as feedback on accomplishments, strengths, and correct responses, and negative feedback as feedback on lack of accomplishments, weaknesses, and incorrect responses

The action taken report is sent by the respective Heads of Department. The performance of the staff in the previous and subsequent years is compared and improvements noted. If no improvements are noticed warning is given to the staff.

Based on the requirements of the staff, Teachers training Programs are conducted in the college, specifically on the needs of the staff. The faculties are also encouraged to attend Faculty training programs conducted by various institutions and organizations.

Feedback through questionnaires is generally considered to be relative or indicative rather than absolute. It may be affected by factors such as the timing of the distribution of the questionnaire and whether it is distributed ‘in-class’ or by some other means.

STUDENT FEEDBACK ON COURSE

Course goals explain what students will gain from the course. Setting goals is the first step towards structuring the course well. And it can make or break your course, because courses that do this well get great reviews in our marketplace, whereas the ones that do this badly get poor reviews.

A general Feedback on the course conducted in the college is needed to see if the goals of the college is achieved and if restructuring of the course or pattern is needed to improve the curriculum. This gives us insight about the satisfaction of the students, their confidence levels of practising various aspects of Dentistry, the ambience and facilities of the college, the help and assistance from the staff to gain knowledge and skill, extent of course coverage.

The questionnaire format for obtaining feedback on the course concentrates on these core topics

• Extent of Course Content, coverage and Relevance in daily life
• Providing feedback on student’s performance
• Efforts taken by the staff to teach and to evaluate clinical work
• Overall rating of the department
• Confidence level, Knowledge, Skills & Analytical abilities acquired

STUDENTS FEEDBACK COMMITTEE

Sr.No	Name of the Member	Designation
1	Dr.M.Narasimman	Chairman
2	Dr Tamizhesai	Member
3	Dr.Vignesh Vikram	Member
4	Dr.Shubashini	Member
5	Dr Jai santhosh Manikandan	Member
6	Dr. Nivedha Subburaman	Member
7	Dr. Israel Nathanael	Member
8	Dr Parameswaran	Member
9	Dr.N.Narmadha	Member
10	Dr.Sarath sarathy	Member
11	Ms.A.Vijayalakshmi	Member
12	Ms.Archana	Member
13	Mr.Harris	Member
14	Ms. Sri Janani	Member
15	Mr.Moinkhan	Member