The Exit Ticket: Start, Stop, and Continue
Using the exit ticket to gather student feedback and look for patterns.
My first post this year used the Exit Ticket approach to gather student feedback. In the next three posts, I’ll share what I am learning about using the start, stop, and continue reflection method, which was suggested by Elon’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and is popular in several newsletters that I have been reading lately.
I will use an exit ticket for each question to gather the responses and look for patterns. First off … continue:
Continue
For Socrative question number #3, I asked what we should continue doing to help with learning goals. Here are the top responses:
Small discussion teams
Annotations and reading logs (Yeah!)
Short reviews of examples and short “micro” lectures
The first two responses are connected. With pre-class preparation, discussions have been great, and students have enjoyed the small team discussions. The last bullet suggests to me that students still appreciate a form of “chalk and talk” if it is done purposefully. In other words, teacher-led conversations about practice examples and the big-picture view of the key ideas.
At Elon, I also have the opportunity to request a consultation from our Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL). The consultation uses a mid-semester student focus group where a CATL consultant gathers responses in a focus group format. I’ll use it to see if it matches my exit ticket patterns.
Next week: What should we stop doing?