Engaging Students Through a Midterm Feedback Process

February 14, 2025 / Bill Reynolds

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider seeking midterm feedback from your students sometime in the next couple of weeks. Midterm feedback helps you improve the learning experience and class environment for students at a point in the semester when changes can still have an effect on student learning. It also communicates to students that you value their experience and ideas.

You may print and distribute the attached form if you find that it would generate useful information. Please add/delete/modify questions or use a different system so that the feedback is helpful to you and your students. For example, you may choose to copy questions from the SPoI (available here: https://www.fgcu.edu/lucascenter/spoi) so that you can compare students’ perceptions of your teaching early in the semester to how they perceive your teaching when the course ends. Also, thanks to our friends in Digital Learning for creating a midterm version of SPoI (called Student Perception of Instruction Midterm Survey), which is available in Canvas Commons. In addition, the questionnaire attached to this email is available in Canvas Commons for direct import into your course. To find both of these surveys, go to Canvas Commons, select the filter for FGCU, and type “midterm” into the search bar.

Also available as a way of getting feedback is Small Group Instructional Diagnosis, a structured interview process in which your students are asked by an experienced interviewer what helps them learn in that course and how improvements could be made. It requires 25 – 40 minutes of class time, and a Lucas Center staff member will provide participating faculty with a summary of the student feedback. This process can be conducted in a class being held in-person or synchronously online. For more information please contact the Lucas Center, or drop by Library 221 to chat.

Thanks,

Bill