There’s no doubt that gathering post-teaching feedback is vital. We know this. We realize you know this. It’s often the way you gather your feedback that’s less direct.
What are the challenges in gathering students' feedback
• Time: The most common way of gathering student feedback can be resource-intensive. If you’re dealing with your post-teaching feedback manually, the distribution, grouping, and monitoring of every one of the reactions consume time.
• Confidentiality: Sourcing genuine, open responses is difficult. Protecting the post-teaching feedback’s anonymity can be troublesome if you’re using emails, handouts, or including feedback Q&As at the end of live teaching sessions to source and record reactions.
• UX design: Poorly designed post-teaching surveys put people off. Students won’t participate or completely engage in post-teaching surveys if your evaluation is difficult to access or explore.
• Complexity: Some questions or topics can be off-putting, as well. If they’re poorly phrased, complex, or require a great deal of work to finish, then there’s a big chance your students just won’t try to answer.
What are the solutions for gathering students' feedback
Feedback is most valuable when it brings together both qualitative (textual or descriptive) and quantitative (numerical) information. You can make your survey using a mix of such question types:
• Multiple choice: A type of objective evaluation, use this option if you need students to choose replies from a list of choices. It’s ideal to use this type when the potential responses are specific. An example of this may be:
What was the most troublesome aspect of this course?
b. Attending the live sessions
c. Going through the theoretical sessions
• Free text: Here, students will insert their responses as text. This type of question is useful when you need to get qualitative feedback, and don’t want to restrict students by giving specific choices in advance. For instance:
What might make this course more accommodating?
How likely are you to suggest this course?
b. Likely
c. Possibly
d. Unlikely
e. Very unlikely
To gather truly comprehensive and insightful post-teaching feedback, it’s ideal to incorporate a mix of every one of the three question types in your post-teaching survey.
FAQs on gathering students' feedback
• When should I collect post-teaching feedback?
• What kind of post-teaching feedback should I collect?
FAQs on gathering students' feedback
2. When should I collect post-teaching feedback?
3. What kind of post-teaching feedback should I collect?
• Content: Quality, variety, language, detail, or level of challenge. • Delivery: Interactivity, connection, engagement. • Duration: Course, tasks, and tests.
• The Teacher: Empathy, aptitude, communication skills.
• UX/UI design: Interface, navigation, format. • Technical issues: Bugs, broken links, functionality.