How did COVID affect students’ course reviews? We broke it down.
In the spring of 2020, thousands of Princeton students were forced to shift to online learning. Professors, TAs, and preceptors rushed to adapt to Zoom while students struggled with burnout and a growing mental health crisis. As teaching methods changed, so too did course satisfaction, with evaluations and ratings seeing improvements in some departments and steep declines in others. Now, three years after those students were sent home, The Daily Princetonian set out to analyze how course reviews have changed before, during, and after the pandemic.