In order to know that I, as lecturer, is on the right track and that I didn't lose the interest of my students along the way, I prefer to make use of module evaluations. I see this as a method for me to gauge my teaching but also to get more insight into the learning needs of my students. In Law, we as lecturers share modules or do block teaching. Meaning that I will lecture a subsection(s) of the module while one of the other Law lecturers will lecture another subsection of the same module. This can make course evaluation difficult in the sense that you won't always know which feedback is directed to you in particular. However joint course evaluations also assist in all lecturers being aware of what is happening in lectures and what the students enjoy or struggle with throughout the whole module. In a sense it provides a birds-eye view of teaching and learning within the module. It is also a valuable method to gauge yourself as a teacher against others teaching the same module. To construct course evaluations I make use of Google Forms since it allows completely anonymous feedback with likert-scale type feedback provided in a clearly summarised chart. I will also provide excerpts from the student development taken from MAS.
Above is the Evaluation form and the response received of the evaluations
Below are testimonials from students that I have mentored: