Mid-semester feedback (MSF) can be helpful in engaging student voice for instructor evaluation. Historically, MSF has focused entirely on student experience, and thus has not been plagued with many of the reliability and validity issues present in SETs. Rather than rate faculty effectiveness, in MSF, students have the opportunity to discuss what has and hasn’t worked for them so far and provides faculty with the opportunity to more readily see the effects of making adjustments. For a review of the benefits of MSF and a thorough guide on effectuating MSF, see the Midterm Student Feedback Guide (http://bit.ly/msfguidebook).
CU offers MSF in the form of the Classroom Learning Interview Process (CLIP). CLIPs are focus-group style interviews with students during usual class time, conducted by peer faculty.
For an example of a written, easy-to-use, single-page MSF form, see the Stop-Go-Change Evaluations (Sayre, accessed December 2018), available at PhysPort.