Video: Reflective Teaching

Students Helping Students Provide Valuable Feedback on Course Evaluations

UC Merced Teaching Commons

Lynn’s Recommendation

This video project—by students for students—starts with the premise that students can provide meaningful feedback on faculty teaching by learning how to and why. I love how it evokes the investment students have in their own and their peers' learning.

The Students Assessing Teaching and Learning (SATAL) program is a resource available to support academic programs and/or course level assessment for instructors, chairs, and deans. The SATAL program, sponsored by the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning at UC Merced, offers trained undergraduates to gather information about the student learning experience on behalf of individual instructors or academic programs. For example, in support of program assessment, SATAL students can conduct exit interviews with graduating seniors or focus group interviews with students at key transition points in a curriculum. Results are then summarized in a professional report.