End of unit learner feedback - Jill Barlow

I share a workroom with Jill at the Coatbridge centre, and we teach a lot of the same classes, where she teaches Numeracy and I teach Communication. In addition to our lunchtime Wordle, Connections and Strands quizzing, we regularly discuss the importance of improving delivery, and the necessity for meaningful learner feedback. This is an important theme which runs throughout this blog across all the respective teaching teams. 

Jill was discussing the idea of creating a bespoke questionnaire post delivery, to ask her students a series of questions, and as a result, devised this excellent version, using Survey Monkey. I would encourage colleagues to look at the style of the questions, which most definitely yield a great deal of very useful qualitative and quantitative data in a supportive and clear manner. Jill takes up her reflections below. I personally think this is a great example of how to develop as an educator, in a user friendly way, to improve delivery moving forward and reflecting on the many success of the various deliveries. Bravo.

Here is a link to the Qs: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PWPTQKY

This is my first "proper" year in the college (I was only here for the tail end of Semester 2 last year. This is my first go at having students for the entirety of their courses). While I have delivered Maths. and Numeracy courses for years, it has been to a different population with different needs and expectations. For example, in my last role, delivery was entirely paper based. I didn't have to create slides, use a VLE like Moodle, or really utilise any other form of technology. 

Given these new challenges, I thought it was important to get an idea of how the students thought I performed in the first semester. 

I asked three separate questions on the delivery of courses: 

1. quality of the workbooks
2. quality of slides/examples in class
3. quality of teaching in general

If the students thought the workbooks were helpful, great! But did my examples on the board beforehand prepare for them adequately? Did I explain the examples in a clear way? I know all three aspects contribute to the delivery of the courses, so wanted to ensure I captured info about all three aspects individually.

While I get feedback informally from students in every class, I felt it necessary to capture this in a more formal manner, especially given that they can be anonymous in an online survey and perhaps give constructive feedback more readily than they would in person. 

Wrongly or rightly, I found the "any other comments" question the most interesting and generally read the answers to that one first! Thankfully, on the whole, they were very positive. The comments identifying areas for improvement will help enhance my practice for the upcoming semester. Meanwhile the complimentary comments have done wonders for my ego. No downsides to capturing user voice!