Midsemester Feedback
Gathering student feedback is a great way to find out what's working in
your class and what could use some improvement. Although we recommend
offering students multiple opportunities to provide input on the course,
midsemester is an optimal time to conduct a formal assessment. Students
are familiar with the learning environment and have a sense of their own
progress. Instructors appreciate hearing about issues with sufficient time
to make corrections or changes. Students appreciate the timing because
they can benefit from their own comments and because the instructor has an
early and improved awareness of student concerns.
Survey options
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Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ)
SEEQ is temporarily unavailable. Please check back for updates.
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Student Assessment of Learning Gains
SALG
is a flexible online survey sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for
Educational Research and allows you to choose an instrument
constructed for a course similar to yours and modify it for your
particular course. It also has an area for open-ended questions.
The survey is delivered to students online and the sponsors provide
a statistical report of the results.
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Customized feedback
With a small class, you can produce a completely custom measure the
old fashioned way by creating a paper survey. For some suggestions, see
Examples of Teacher-Designed/Scored Feedback Questionnaires
(pdf). Contact us at
site@psu.edu
for additional information.
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Canvas
Built-in tools, such as the survey tool, allow you to create a custom
feedback instrument in the Canvas environment. You can also try the Canvas polling tool.