Please listen to their responses so you can tell me if you have any additions or disagreements. At this point, the consultant can do something you cannot do with written responses. Second, the consultant quickly asks for any additions to or disagreements with the first group's responses. On written evaluations, we tend to think that if five or more students make the same point, everyone must agree. The SGA often demonstrates otherwise.
Students do disagree, sometimes strongly.
Thus, the airing of ideas can be as revealing to students as it is to the professor. Third, the consultant picks another group to start discussion of the second question, and if time allows, still another for the third. The consultant takes notes on the discussion, collects the students' notes from each group, and prepares to meet with the instructor to share the results. Numerous faculty members take advantage of this service on a regular basis. It is one of the quickest, easiest, and most effective things you can do to improve student learning in your classroom.