(via Jill Deaver, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Fellow librarians who work with medical schools & students,
I have several questions about common, or uncommon, practices related to gathering feedback about library lectures. I’m struggling with the balance between asking for student feedback related to the lecture itself (as a way to improve my talk), and inconveniencing students by asking them to fill out surveys.
Most of my lectures are held in the medical school, in large lecture halls, in front of anywhere from 65-200 students. I’m given anywhere between 10-30 minutes to speak. If this is similar to what you do…
- How do you gather feedback from your students after library lectures/tutorials?
- Do any of you survey your students at the end of the year in addition to after lectures?
- Do any of you survey the faculty who invited you to speak?
- What survey questions offer the most truthful responses about the lasting impact of these lectures?
- Does your library/department collect stats that measure the impact of the liaison teaching program?
- Does your library/department evaluate library lectures in other ways? Peer evaluation by librarians? Peer evaluation by medical faculty?
I would appreciate any surveys, questions, actions, practices, or advice that anyone would like to share.
These questions are just a few that have been on my mind lately. I’d also be interested in setting up a virtual meeting to discuss further. Contact me off line if you are interested in having a virtual face-to-face discussion about the various ways that you teach medical students through lectures and other means, please e-mail me, at jilld@uab.edu.