What is a Mid-Semester Feedback Session?

A Mid- Semester feedback session is a CTL-facilitated session conducted with students enrolled in one of your courses in order to collect targeted information on teaching and learning in your course. The formative process provides you with their feedback on what enhances or hinders their learning in the course. The feedback provided can be used to make changes when compared to feedback collected through end-of-semester evaluations.  Faculty request these sessions as they offer the opportunity to go back to students during the semester and reinforce class learning goals while addressing their concerns. Click here for the 1982 paper by Clark and Redmond, who first introduced the process at the University of Washington’s Biology Learning Resource Center.

How is a session conducted?

You will introduce the purpose of the session to students, encourage students to be candid and specific in their feedback and then exit class to maintain student anonymity. Students work individually through a Start/Stop/Continue* exercise. They then work in small groups to reach a consensus, agree on examples and the constructive feedback they provide.

* i) What helps you learn the most in this course?

ii) What improvement could be made to help you learn better in this course?

iii) What steps could you take to improve your own learning in this course? (questions can be modified to capture information unique to the course)

What happens post-session?

You will receive a short, confidential report providing anonymized feedback from the students, a debrief session with the Senior Instructional Consultant, and resources if needed. Have a brief discussion with your students acknowledging that you have received their feedback and explaining what you plan to do about it.

Sign-up Sheet

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