& Information from Students

As an instructor, you are constantly evaluating students and giving them feedback on their work. However, there is a real advantage to receiving regular feedback from your students about your teaching. One of the simplest ways to do this is, of course, is to have a Suggestion Box where students can drop their ideas. You can also collect valuable information from your students by compiling and distributing short forms of three to five questions which focus on aspects of your teaching you want to learn more about perhaps issues you identified when you were trying to answer questions about your own teaching.

Patricia Cross and Thomas Angelo (1988) have developed a technique called the Teacher-Designed Evaluation Mini-Form which allows instructors to ask students focussed questions about the course at regular intervals.

Other Classroom Assessment Techniques