The Case for Early Student Evaluations

How feedback at the start of the semester can help nip issues in the bud.

members-only post Jul 08, 2018 2-min read

In this post, I make the case that professors should not wait until the end of the semester to solicit student feedback. As you’ll see below, it’s easy for faculty to anonymously collect student responses and manifest problems that may haunt us over the course of the term.

Feedback Lessons From Software Developers

Software developers have embraced Agile methods such as Scrum for decades. Their benefits are manifold. Perhaps most important, they allow for quick feedback and process improvement. Put differently, they resemble closed loops. (Consider a thermostat. If you set the temperature at 72°, then that's where it should stay. Always.)

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