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Improvement of My Teaching
Aside from the University-coordinated assessment and informal verbal feedback from students during in-class or one-on-one dialogues, I assess each of my courses in at least three ways:
Execution: Students are asked to provide their responses anonymously. I explain the purpose of the assessment (improvement of future courses), ask for one volunteer to administer the assessment, and leave the room while this assessment is executed.
My experience: Students are very open about their suggestions. I have been executing this type of assessment for 3 years now. As a result I included video-material and guest lectures to my classes.
I consider this assessment summative, when it pertains to the ongoing course, because it evaluates student's perceptions about the course. Yet, this assessment is formative when it is reviewed in context of future course executions.
"Review in no more than 300 words what the 3 most important things are that you learned in this course. Explain why you consider these things important."
Although only executed for about 1 year now, this assessment has already given me a tremendous insight in what students consider important. At the same time, it encourages the students to reflect on the past semester, and extract those things that made the deepest impression on them. Through this assessment, I have received some valuable feedback on the points students consider of highest interest in my courses.
This is a summative assessment for the ongoing course, yet an important formative assessment for future courses as well.
Presented below are my perceptions of assessment application in a table and a chart.
