Ask the Students

Your students have unique perspective on your teaching abilities. Giving them an opportunity to voice their perspectives, opinions, and experiences can provide you with powerful feedback for self-reflection. Student feedback surveys and questionnaires are useful, but an actual conversation with students provides data that is rich and more in-depth than what they can provide in a written format. Discussion provides the opportunity to clarify questions, create synergy among those involved, follow-up on unclear responses, and offer suggestions. The resulting data is useful information to inform next steps.