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CONFIDENTIAL FEEDBACK SERVICES
Faculty members may take advantage of the Research Academy's confidential feedback services.
Depending on the interests of the instructor, the observation can take one of three forms:
observation, observation with video, or Student Small Group Analysis
(SGA).
- Observation: At a mutually convenient time, someone will sit in on your class and later
review his or her confidential observation notes with you.
- Video with Observation:
Videotaping gives you information about your teaching, and very often
the picture is worth a thousand words. The effectiveness of an
observation is often enhanced by simultaneous video taping. At the end
of class, you are given the video to view privately, giving you
complete control over it. You also receive a checklist to help focus
your review. If you wish, someone will review the video with you.
- Student Small Group Analysis (SGA):
This simple procedure provides you with early and extensive feedback
from students, often giving you information and insights that do not
emerge from end-of-term student ratings and comments. Best of all, you
do not have to wait until the semester is over to receive feedback. If
changes are appropriate, you can make them for the same class that made
the suggestions. A Research Academy representative comes to your class at a time
and date you determine, usually between the fifth and ninth week of
classes, and after you leave the room, creates small groups and ask
each one to address these questions:
- In what ways has the instruction/instructor helped you learn in this course?
- Can you suggest some changes in the instruction/course that would better help you learn?
- Are you learning? Why or why not?
The groups tend to promote the development of ideas and a level of
insight that seldom, if ever, emerges when students operate alone to
scribble a few comments on the back of a form at the end of the
semester. The Academy representative will collect the feedback and later
meet with you to share the responses. No one else will ever see the
results. The SGA is one of the quickest, easiest, and most effective
ways to improve student learning in your classroom.
CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
It is the policy of the Research Academy for University Learning to respect the confidentiality of the
consultation process that occurs between an instructor and a consultant.
Call the Research Academy at 973-65-LEARN (655-3276) to arrange for feedback service.
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