MODELING LEARNING THROUGH EXPERIENCE: USING STUDENT FEEDBACK TEAMS TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE TEACHING
Keywords:
experiential learning, feedback, leadership, student evaluation of teachingAbstract
Effective feedback is timely, constructive, concrete, descriptive, meaningful, and credible. Yet, universities rely on end-of-course quantitative student evaluations of teaching (SETs) in broad categories to measure teaching effectiveness, in part for evaluation purposes but also as a means of improving instruction. Research points to the well disputed validity and impact of SETs, and a few alternatives are available. Mid-semester questionnaires andReferences
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