Early in the semester (after the first major assignment is an ideal time), a Sheridan staff member will meet or talk by phone with you to hear more about how your class is going, key goals, and questions you have. We will then talk through the process for gathering feedback and the date that we will visit your class.

On the date of your choosing, a Sheridan staff member will come to the first 10 minutes of  your class. After explaining the process to your students, the staff member will prompt them to provide electronic feedback to three broad, qualitative questions: What is really helping you learn in this course? What could be improved in this course to support your learning? What could you do to improve your learning?

Over the course of the next few days, we will use a Python Notebook---a language processing tool---to generate a report of the major themes that emerged from the high volume of written responses. Leveraging this data, we will then develop a highly tailored set of class-specific statements with which your students will rate their level of agreement. This subsequent survey will be administered by a Sheridan staff member in the first 10 minutes of class one week after the first visit.

Within a week of the second visit, a Sheridan staff member will provide you with a data packet that includes a Qualtrics report, i.e., visualizations of the major patterns, including key areas of consensus and disagreement, in student responses to the survey questions administered. Along with the summary statistics from the second survey, you will receive a spreadsheet with all the raw student data collected. 

After discussing this diagnostic tool and its results and implications, we will strategize ways you might “close the loop,” e.g., thank students for their feedback, note 1-2 things you could address in response, or discuss what you can’t change (and why). The individual report goes just to you, although you are welcome to share as you like.