Midterm Feedback in Applied Combinatorics
March 7th, 2010I firmly believe that for effective teaching and learning in a class, you need two-way feedback. That means that not only do I give the students feedback, but they also get to give me feedback. Georgia Tech, like most places, have a standardized end-of-term course survey. However, I want to be able to fix things on the fly. To do this, I implement a quick midterm survey through our course management system. I provide a modest incentive to the students to take the anonymous survey (free credit for a reading assignment or three clicker questions), and this time I got a phenomenal response rate. (The survey really is anonymous since our course management system can record a score in the gradebook for taking the survey without attaching a name to the responses.) Read more »