curated class feedback

You spend hours preparing for class, organizing content, finding examples, designing assessments – but is any of it working? A Curated Class Feedback will help you find out! Participants are limited to one class session per semester, and may participate in as many semester as they wish, subject to availability.

When you participate in Curated Class Feedback, a trained facilitator will come to your class mid-semester and use 30 minutes of class time to conduct the feedback session with your students. You will leave the class during this feedback session; it’s best to use the last 30 minutes of class for this purpose rather than the first 30 minutes. It’s also recommended for the facilitator to sit in on the first portion of class to gain some context for what or how you teach, in order to better understand student comments.

After conducting the feedback session, the facilitator will write up a summary of the class’ feedback and send the summary to you within a few days. You will meet with the facilitator to discuss the summary.  Then, within 1 week of the date of feedback session, you will address the feedback with your class, focusing on the “what to change” feedback and explaining what changes you are/are not making and why. 

what it is

  • A voluntary opportunity for instructors to receive specific and anonymous feedback from students about what is working well and what could be improved in the course you are teaching them.
  • A confidential report created by a colleague that is shared only with you.
  • A compilation of comments from the class; no specific students are identified and all comments are ones the majority of students agree upon.

what it is not

  • A required activity
  • An evaluation of your teaching that would be shared with anyone else or used for promotion/tenure/awards.
  • An opinion of or evaluation by the facilitator regarding your teaching.

what is required of you?

  • 30 minutes of class time around the middle of the semester (you choose the date)
  • 30-45 minutes to meet outside of class with the facilitator to review the feedback
  • 15 minutes in class to address the feedback process, the feedback, and your response to the feedback, with your students

why participate?

  • Receive specific feedback about what is and is not resonating with your students.
  • Have time in the remainder of the semester to strengthen what is working and respond to feedback about what is not working.
  • Demonstrate to your students that you value teaching and prioritize their learning
  • Enable students to feel heard, which can lead to them investing more effort into your class

how do i sign up?

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) will contact all faculty (adjunct, term, tenure-track) after the first month of class to offer slots. Availability is first-come, first-served.

If you are certain you would like to participate in Curated Class Feedback, you can click the button below to send an email to the CTE expressing your interest.

SIGN UP OR LEARN MORE ABOUT CURATED CLASS FEEDBACK
Questions? Contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at cte@bryant.edu

faq

First, Curated Class Feedback is voluntary, whereas departmental observation likely is not. It is entirely up to you whether you want to participate. Second, this feedback is solely from your students, whereas departmental feedback is from a peer.

Colleagues who have volunteered to be trained to conduct the facilitation. They may be faculty in any department though probably not your own.

The Curated Class Feedback method can be faster for you because the results are already summarized and prioritized. If you get individual feedback from students, you are spending time sorting through the feedback to determine patterns, outliers, and commonalities. Additionally, the Curated Class Feedback method can be enlightening for students. When they give you feedback individually, they don’t see how their feedback compares to the rest of the class. With Curated Class Feedback, students quickly see whether others feel as they do and how unified the class is on certain issues.

Usually no. Facilitators are matched by the CTE based on schedule availability. We prioritize cross-departmental facilitation, since the purpose of the facilitator is to solicit and convey class feedback and not to insert any personal assessment on the instructor’s teaching.

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