Collecting and Using Student Feedback

Getting feedback from our students is an essential part of reflective and scholarly teaching, as this allows us to make adjustments to our instruction and course design. Course evaluations, also known as student ratings of instruction (SRI), are just one data point in a rich body of information that we can use to plan for future courses, but they are often the only direct evidence we have of our students’ satisfaction levels.  

This session will discuss understanding and analyzing the numerical and written feedback we get at the end of each semester, especially in terms of knowing what to do with that feedback while planning future courses. We will also explore creating first-day, mid-semester, and end-of-semester surveys using Qualtrics to collect other data throughout a course, as well as other strategies to solicit mid-semester student feedback. Registration is required.