Optional Mid-Quarter Feedback Forms available for Autumn 2020
Optional Mid-Quarter Feedback Forms available for Autumn 2020
The move to remote learning for the spring 2020 academic quarter posed many unique challenges for the UW community, the foremost arguably being adapting most courses from face-to-face to a remote learning environment. IAE recognized the need now, more than ever, to ensure that instructors have the ability to gather feedback about their students’ learning experience during the quarter, not just at its conclusion. For that reason, IAE developed an opportunity for instructors to solicit feedback from students using an optional Mid-Quarter Course Feedback form.
The Mid-Quarter Course Feedback form was designed through a collaboration between IAE research scientists and UW faculty senate leadership. Its purpose is to allow students to engage with their instructors part-way through the quarter regarding their learning experience in the course, allowing instructors to make changes or adjustments to improve student learning in the current remote learning environment. The scaled items and open-ended prompts included in Form Z – Mid Quarter Course Feedback are formative in their orientation, mutually informative, and intended to provide instructors with actionable insights.
In addition to these default items, instructors may add their own additional questions. The Mid-Quarter Course Feedback form will be available online through IAE’s Instructional Assessment System (IASystem) at the beginning of week 4 (October 19) through the end of week 6 of the quarter (November 6). Instructors should work with their department’s IASystem coordinators to specify their own dates to gather feedback during this three-week period. Reports from the Mid-Quarter Course Feedback Form will be available to instructors within 24 hours of the close date selected for their course(s). After November 6, IASystem will close the mid-quarter collection period and open the regular end-of-quarter evaluation process. Autumn 2020 End-of-term course evaluation period will be available as early as Monday, November 9th.