Communicating Outcome of in the moment Evaluations
Communicating the outcomes of the in-the-moment evaluation to your students is really important. This should ideally happen in the next session you have with them.
Explaining at the beginning of the session what students said about the two main questions will reinforce the shared responsibility notion we alluded to earlier. It will also give you an opportunity to explain what you will do in response to the feedback in the here and now of the module. Similarly, you can explain how you are going to address the feedback which might not be appropriate for the current module. The key thing here is the opportunity to calibrate students’ expectations and perceptions about how and why you do things the way you do in your module. The open and responsive nature of the evaluation should help students to see their feedback matters and that it will be in a reasoned way acted upon in a timely manner.
You could also try more specific general evaluative questions.
General evaluation questions
You could ask students more specific questions about the module and how it is being taught and then some questions designed to get students to reflect upon their own development:
Specific Reflective questions for students
You can use the data to provide a response in the subsequent teaching session. You could for example reflect upon the feedback you receive for question two and the directly address this in terms of areas you are going to improve for the remainder of the module.
There could for instance be a case where you directly lift quotes from the feedback you receive in question 2 and then explain how you will address it. For example, you might respond in a similar way to these quotes:
