"There's also no incentive to provide useful feedback from the student's perspective."
Some departments of the university I'm studying at got around this problem by bribing the students with printing credits after filling out the lecture feedback surveys. Other more general surveys on the campus entered all respondents into a prize draw for vouchers or cash.
Sadly my department did nothing like that and as such our response rates are as abysmal as your experience describes.
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"There's also no incentive to provide useful feedback from the student's perspective."
Some departments of the university I'm studying at got around this problem by bribing the students with printing credits after filling out the lecture feedback surveys. Other more general surveys on the campus entered all respondents into a prize draw for vouchers or cash.
Sadly my department did nothing like that and as such our response rates are as abysmal as your experience describes.