{"id":10356,"date":"2023-08-14T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/?page_id=10356"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:24:27","slug":"student-surveys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/pedagogical-strategies-that-support-learning\/connect-with-your-students\/student-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Student surveys help forge connections and offer valuable formative feedback.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-course surveys<\/strong>: Survey students before (or early in) the semester to gain insight about your students &#8220;with regard to the social identities, equity and inclusion challenges, and other attributes they bring to class&#8221; (Addy et al, 2021, p. 139) and to consider how you might adjust your teaching proactively. Sharing data in aggregate with your students can also help them feel a sense of general connection and belonging in the course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formative feedback: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survey students at mid-semester, for example, to gain insights into what is working well and what isn\u2019t working so well, enabling you to make changes and also providing materials to reflect on. Examples include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/0\/folders\/11VXJ_rxUhbHskjcaaLNLvkqd99BUqK8S\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Sample surveys from OFE,<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0also available on Canvas Commons for direct copy into your course. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply log in to <\/span>Canvas <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and click \u201cCommons\u201d in the far left-hand navigation, and then search \u201cOFE\u201d and \u201csurvey.\u201d You can make an anonymous survey in Canvas by setting it as an \u201cungraded survey\u201d and clicking on \u201canonymous replies\u201d in the settings<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Your own survey<\/strong>, focusing on specific questions that are easily answered, such as: \u201cWhich of the following in-class activities have you found most useful?\u201d Or, \u201cOn a scale of 1-5, how accurate and useful do you believe each of the following assessments is in gauging your learning?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Have a survey to share? <a href=\"faculty@montclair.edu\">Please let us know<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Resources and References<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<p>Addy, T. M., Dube, D., Mitchell, K. A., &amp; SoRelle, M. E. (2021).\u00a0<em>What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching<\/em>. Stylus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/research\/files\/2016\/08\/assessments_examples.pdf\">Example feedback questions<\/a> (Bates College): Collection of example survey questions from a range of colleges and universities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.pitt.edu\/omet\/midterm\/customize-your-survey\/\">Midterm survey<\/a> (University of Pittsburgh\u2019s Center for Teaching and Learning <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><p><em>Last Modified: Monday, August 14, 2023 3:24 pm<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information or help, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:faculty@montclair.edu\">email<\/a>\u00a0the Office for Faculty Excellence or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/montclair-faculty-excellence.libcal.com\/appointments\/\">make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0with a consultant.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2022\/08\/CC.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"80\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeaching Resources by\u00a0<a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/\">ÌÇÐÄvlog Office for Faculty Excellence<\/a>\u00a0is licensed under a\u00a0<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Third-party content is not covered under the Creative Commons license and may be subject to additional intellectual property notices, information, or restrictions. 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Pre-course surveys: Survey students before (or early in) the semester to gain insight about your students &#8220;with regard to the social identities, equity and inclusion challenges, and other attributes they bring to class&#8221; (Addy et al, 2021, p. 139) and to consider how you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":10358,"parent":7707,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10356","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10365,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10356\/revisions\/10365"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}