We talk a lot about how to give feedback to students, but what about how to receive it? Encouraging student feedback effectively evaluates and improves teaching, course design, and student engagement efforts. We’ll take a look at one method for gathering student feedback through the use of a mid-semester survey.

We all think we know what it means to be successful, but need to remember that student success includes their version of studying, practicing, and actualizing their learning. Given the plethora of different ways to learn, there should also be as many different ways to test what we have learned. Universally designed assessment strategies bring us closer to process and reality.

Feedback may be one of the most powerful teaching and learning methods in your classroom and not all of it has to come from you!

Instructors need feedback to shape lecture materials and modify class activities just as much as students need feedback to assess their progress and learning. Everyone benefits when a tight feedback loop is in place.

Find out how to create feedback loops with your own feedback cycle so everyone benefits.

Effective feedback serves two purposes. It shapes how educators will teach (or reteach) concepts as students progress through the material and provides a vehicle by which students can assess their learning and, in most cases, make changes and grow.