Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback

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With a rapidly changing educational environment, it’s more important than ever for faculty to check in with our students during the course to see how it’s going—what’s working well and what needs adjustment. Rather than waiting for end-of-semester evaluations, consider collecting feedback in the middle of the semester, when there’s still time to make changes. There are multiple ways to gather feedback, and CNDLS is happy to be a part of your process:

  1. Self-Assessment: There are many methods to collect student feedback yourself, ranging from brief Classroom Assessment Techniques to surveys administered through Qualtrics, Google Forms, Canvas Quizzes (ungraded and anonymous), or SurveyMonkey. Check out our page on gathering teaching feedback for ideas on how to get started, or reach out to us at cndls@georgetown.edu for a consultation.
  2. CNDLS-Administered Survey: If you would like to emphasize student anonymity in the feedback process, we can work with you to design a survey that we would then administer. CNDLS would collect the data, remove any indicators of student identity, and meet with you—and possibly with your class as a whole, if you would like—to share and discuss the results, and how you might respond. See CNDLS survey design services or reach out to us at cndls@georgetown.edu to get started.
  3. In-person or Virtual Feedback Session Facilitated by CNDLS: We meet with the faculty member to get a sense of the class and to generate the most relevant questions to ask the students. Then we meet with the students either in person or via Zoom during class time, in the professor’s absence, and put them into small groups to answer those questions. Finally, we meet again with the faculty member to share a summary of that student feedback and to talk through ideas for how to adjust the course going forward. If you’d like to schedule this mid-semester teaching feedback service, please fill out this form and we will be in touch with you shortly.

Whether you’re thinking about gathering student feedback yourself or using another method in consultation or partnership with CNDLS, it’s always helpful to stay in communication with your students about why you’re collecting the feedback and how it will work. Then, once you have the feedback, it’s important to let them know what you’ve heard from them, and what you’re going to do with the information—which things you’ll be able to change right away, which things may have to wait for another semester, and which things really can’t change (in which case it’s crucial to explain why). Whatever method you choose, we’re happy to help. Reach out to us at cndls@georgetown.edu to get started.

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