Gathering and Reflecting on Feedback

Before the announcement of the exhibition, I had informal discussions, brief ones, to gauge responses to the topic. The title prompted enough curiosity and thus I promoted the event under the name. This page has two sections, one on the process used to get feedback and the other, reflection on the feedback.

Gathering feedback from the participants

The response from participants was well received. They found the topic interesting and although problem-based learning was not a new pedagogic concept, they remarked and appreciated the analysis of the approach as applied to a design project. They commented that they could see how some specific projects especially interdisciplinary ones could be framed and delivered to students using this approach. From this I was invited to deliver the same presentation, to the upcoming conference in October or during research week in 2018.

The participants also inquired whether there would be an extension of the workshop and for other faculty not just for visual arts but for the other schools. This means I have succeeded in opening up a dialogue of how we might continuously observe, research and adapt our classroom practice especially in light of the change and appeal for content knowledge and instruction to be 21st century ready.

After the presentation, I initially handed out a survey on paper and asked for participants to complete before leaving. However, it is apparent that teachers are worse than students at completing surveys or having the will to do so. So I had to go to plan b, which was to give them an easier format. I pulled for my visually rich data collection tool, Typeform and created a survey with 7 questions. Then I emailed the participants an appreciation letter with a reminder and link to fill out a “short, easy to complete, 7 question” survey, which they said was much easier for them. In addition, I was asked for a summarized version of the presentation.

The results of the survey is presented below:

The interface for the survey in Typeform showing 7 questions.

The page the participants see at the beginning of the survey

The introduction page of the survey which tells them how the data collected will be used

A sample of how one of the open-ended questions look in the Typeform survey