Article: Reflective Teaching
Soliciting and Utilizing Mid-Semester Feedback
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
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If you're looking to dive deeper, this guide covers the why, when, how, and what of collecting mid-semester feedback. The dedicated section "What to Do with Mid-Semester Feedback?" is especially salient for experienced teachers.
Although students provide summative insight on our teaching in their end-of-semester course evaluations, teachers can also benefit from soliciting mid-semester feedback from their students. Unlike the feedback on formal course evaluations, this mid-semester feedback can be utilized immediately to make adjustments, clarify expectations, or reinforce the goals and aims of the course. This both ensures that your course is more dynamically responsive to your students’ needs and provides a safe, low-stakes forum for students to provide feedback that will not appear on your official teaching evaluation forms.
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