One of my professors sets aside 5 minutes at the end of every lecture and hands out paper slips with a few prompts and questions. This is wildly successful, almost everyone participates.
We also did this at the end of the EA Berlin unconference this summer, setting aside 20-30 minutes to fill in a really thorough form.
Of course if you care about feedback at a later date, this approach won’t work as well.
I was just going to say, have everyone fill out the survey either at beginning or end of the session. I don’t think you need paper slips, but participation is much higher if it is in session.
I don’t agree with paying people to fill it out (because it removes intrinsic motivation, because it might seem weird to participants why this is worth paying for). I think having them fill it out in session should be sufficient to get nearly everyone to fill it out.
One of my professors sets aside 5 minutes at the end of every lecture and hands out paper slips with a few prompts and questions. This is wildly successful, almost everyone participates. We also did this at the end of the EA Berlin unconference this summer, setting aside 20-30 minutes to fill in a really thorough form.
Of course if you care about feedback at a later date, this approach won’t work as well.
I was just going to say, have everyone fill out the survey either at beginning or end of the session. I don’t think you need paper slips, but participation is much higher if it is in session.
I don’t agree with paying people to fill it out (because it removes intrinsic motivation, because it might seem weird to participants why this is worth paying for). I think having them fill it out in session should be sufficient to get nearly everyone to fill it out.
This works better than ‘send later’ because
captive audience, not much better to do with their time
social pressure and signaling, they see you are looking at them and handing back the slips
top of mind, no chance to forget it
This works really well in my experience too.