Dialogue-based student feedback: formative approaches to evaluate academic teaching and as “crisis intervention"

Methods such as the Teaching Analysis Poll (TAP) and course evaluation via student representatives were practically approved and further developed in a two years project in two faculties of University of Duisburg-Essen.
These methods aim to benefit both the quality of student learning and the professional development of the teacher. While TAPs are conducted by an uninvolved moderator the student representatives have to fulfil different roles which can be conflicting. In fact both approaches have strengths and weaknesses especially when they are used as a “crisis intervention” when there are serious problems in class.

This paper was presented at EQAF and reflects the views of the named authors only.