Leveraging early-semester formative feedback to support instruction

Ohio University instructors are invited to join the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CTLA) to engage in a conversation about the value of early-semester formative feedback and learn about a survey they can implement over the next week or two. Gathering student feedback on a course early in the semester offers insight into what is working and not working and allows an instructor the opportunity to make reasonable changes. 

This type of easy-to-deploy survey allows instructors to reinforce learning outcomes, why they teach the way they do and why they make certain choices about content, making decisions transparent to students. Early-semester feedback asks students to reflect on responsibility for their own learning and how they can support it. 

This session will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, virtually via Teams.

Following this session, participants will

• Connect the research on formative student feedback with their own implementation.
• Administer or adapt a CTLA formative feedback survey to gather early-semester formative feedback.
• Explain the process for preparing students to take the survey and debriefing students on survey results.
• Determine what -- if any -- changes to instruction should result from survey administration.

To learn about this session and others offered by the CTLA and its partners this fall, visit the CTLA Programs and Upcoming Events website.