Are automated online quizzes effective for formative feedback to students
I would like to increase my use of formative feedback (feedback showing students whether they understand material correctly without impacting their grades) and would like to integrate it with online...
View ArticleWhere to draw the line when giving feedback?
When teaching undergraduates, I find myself trying to balance making them stretch to produce good work and giving them guidance. I must admit in my own undergraduate and graduate studies I rarely if...
View ArticleWhat to do about students who ask for help too often?
For my writing courses, about 5% of students will come to me prior to deadlines asking for help with their paper. I see no problem advising students, as I often similarly came for help when I was an...
View ArticleGood questions for post-class survey
In order to get feedback more quickly, I've seen some teachers run a quick (certainly no more than 5 minutes), entirely optional, anonymous survey for students at the end of each of each class,...
View ArticleFeedback for a student showing improvement
One of the students whose work I'm grading has just handed in a piece of work which is much better than what I've come to expect of them after several classes. I was just about to write some rather...
View ArticleShould a professor discuss his/her reviews (given by students) in class?
The question is inspired by this image posted on reddit. Would this be considered a constructive step towards improving the interaction with students and the teaching in general? To clarify, I am...
View ArticleHow to get the most benefit out of a teaching consultation?
I have requested a teaching consultation from my university's Center for Teaching & Learning. First I'll meet with a couple of consultants, then they'll observe my regular class, and then they'll...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to solicit teaching feedback from students (before the...
I sent my students a feedback form (I'm a TA) and I got three responses. While they were helpful and informative responses, I am not sure how to interpret them, because there are only three of them...
View ArticleHow can I (and should I) approach a teacher with a difficult attitude in...
She's not exactly a terrible teacher, but she doesn't relate to students well, and the way she teaches in class discourages us from participating. For example, when asking someone to translate a...
View ArticleHow to intervene in a course that is failing to meet expectations?
All MA students in my graduate program (social sciences) are required to take a course titled 'Thought and Theory'. Ostensibly, the course should serve as an in-depth introduction for students to the...
View ArticleHow to react to a student who provides very critical comments about your...
I am a teacher in an institute and I teach English as a foreign language to students in an 8_week session. At the end of each session, the students are required to give their opinion about the class...
View ArticleHow should I deal with very negative feedback from some students?
I am a lecturer of a computer course in a university. Two months (almost 20 hours) of lectures have already finished. Very recently, I planned to get some feedback from my students on my lectures. I...
View ArticleBest way to poll students during a class by web
I'm looking to get feedback from students fairly seamlessly during a lecture. I know that there is a reluctance to raise one's hand (if part of a large audience), and my experience of such polling...
View ArticleHow do you respectfully give a teacher feedback about their teaching?
My teacher's teaching style isn't working for me, and he asked for feedback about the class and how he could teach it better. He teaches with powerpoint and gives quizzes that are all about rote...
View ArticleWho reads teaching evaluations?
At the end of each semester, usually a month before final exams, my school (in the US) distributes teaching evaluations. What people will read these? Do people only see these after the final grades...
View ArticleHow to avoid European bias in science history teaching? [closed]
I'm a new lecturer. Part of my course (one lecture) teaches the origins of our scientific understanding of the solar system. I talk about the ancient Greeks, the preservation of their work by eastern...
View ArticleEffective way to handle open-ended student feedback?
I regularly use a short start/stop/continue-survey on my students to be able to improve my teaching skills. I get a lot of informative data that helps me, but there's a lot of work involved in digging...
View ArticleProfessor is upset about student comments about her lectures. What should I do?
One of my former supervisors is upset about student feedback for her lectures. There are two problems: If she provides complete slides with information, students complain that she reads from the...
View ArticleIs there an efficient way to give a large class of students feedback about...
I am the course lecturer of a large undergraduate course with about 700 students in the course. One of the challenges of teaching such a large course is grading the assignments and giving students...
View ArticleIs it safe for a student to give negative feedback in student evaluations?...
It's common for students to be asked for their evaluations of a teacher/course at the end of the semester. Is it safe for the student to give negative feedback? After all, even if the lecturer will...
View ArticleHow to deal with student's feedback about tutor
I'm a professor's assistant and design the exercises for his class. Each week the students are assigned some homework, which will be corrected by a tutor. I got an email from a student, who "complains"...
View ArticleHow to reply to students' emails that show anger about their mark?
I always find myself in a difficult situation on the rage of students who are upset about their marks they just received. I feel it is kind of difficult to reply to students' emails that sound very...
View ArticleHow to give feedback to students after bad grades
I realize that I have some difficulty giving feedback to students when they have expected to have a good grade and/or they have invested a lot of time. My impression is that there is a trade-off...
View ArticleHow to respond to an upset student?
My finals were held recently. Due to some timetabling issues, I had to organize for some students to take the finals early, but still within finals week. The dates were mutually agreed. One of these...
View ArticleTo whom can I report an instructor who is teaching 35+ credit hours across...
I have a prof who is teaching between five universities, full-time at one and adjunct at the others. This semester alone they're teaching over 35 credit hours, which is double a regular full-time...
View ArticleFacilitating anonymous feedback with possibility of dialogue
I'd like to give students a platform to anonymously provide feedback on my course/teaching, but I'd like the platform to allow me to respond to individual students without revealing their identities....
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