Using questionnaires to better understand our students’ learning

Google Forms provide a good way of using questionnaires with our students. There is a blog post this week on doing just that to better understand our students learning.

Full post here: https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/using-questionnaires-to-better-understand-our-students-learning/

Conclusion:

Takeaways for all teachers

Sam’s study reminds us that we should find every way we can to ‘get inside’ the thinking of our students. By doing this, we can find new and novel types of assessment data – alongside more conventional teacher assessments – to sharpen and enrich our understanding of where our students are and where to take them next. Canvassing our students’ thoughts also shows them how much we value their learning. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that as practitioners we are the ‘experts’ and that student responses like these are only one part of the whole.