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Payette and Marie Kendall Brown • University of Louisville  \nAbstract  \nA valuable supplement to student evaluations of teaching (SETs) is the mid-semester feedback (MSF) technique, an intervention that can facilitate meaningful improvement of the teaching and learning experience. Scheduling time for an MSF enables a systematic, formative evaluation of instruction on a specific student population in a given semester. The authors introduce and provide an overview of the MSF, unpack the procedure step-by-step, share research on the MSF, and offer guidance for implementing several variations for instructors who find themselves short on resources and time.  \nKeywords: mid-semester feedback, formative feedback, instructional improvement, classroom assessment, Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID)  \nFor the majority of college instructors, student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are a key source of the data used to measure student perceptions of teaching effectiveness and inform personnel decisions (Seldin, 1993) . SETs area widely accepted tool for obtaining students’ feedback on an instructor’s ability to teach and on students’ level of engagement in course activities. Alternatively, mid-semester feedback (MSF) offers a new technique for assessing classroom dynamics, student engagement, and students’day-to-day experiences, which can inform meaningful improvement of the teaching and learning process.  \nThe MSF initials can also stand for midterm student feedback and the technique is sometimes known by its formal name, Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) . The method “is a systematic procedure for collecting data about the student experience in a given course”(Nyquist & Wulff, 2011, p. 51) . Joseph Clark and Mark Redmond conducted foundational research and introduced the SGID at the University of Washington in 1982. Their goal was to create and test a content-rich approach to diagnostic assessment of courses that yielded more abundant qualitative feedback for the instructor than end-of-semester questionnaires and was more practical and time-efficient than in-depth observation and analysis done by instructional consultants. They chose the term feedback rather than evaluation in order to stress the formative, constructive nature of the technique (Clark & Redmond, 1982) .  \nAlthough the MSF is not designed to replace SETs asthe primary source of student feedback, it is a valuable supplement that can inform an instructor’s thinking about the student experience. Occurring at the midpoint of a course, the MSF informs students and the instructor about what is and  \nwhat is not working while time still remains for adjustments. Scheduling time for an MSF enables a systematic, formative evaluation of instruction on a specific student population ina given semester and enlightens instructional decisions for future semesters.  \nMSF provides instructors with a broader and deeper view of their teaching decisions and behaviors than they are likely to gain otherwise. Stephen Brookfield (1995) describes a critically reflective teacher as one who cultivates a heightened awareness of his or her teaching from as many different perspectives as possible. Although Brookfield notes that gathering feedback from learners is “of utmost importance”(p. 35), he recommends that instructors examine their teaching through three additional lenses: (a) one’s own point of view, or self-reflection; (b) peers, who can provide advice, feedback, and mentoring; and (c) the scholarly literature, also known as the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) . All our recommended MSF interventions support instructors in using the lenses of student feedback and self-reflection to consider the teaching-and-learning dynamic in their classroom. 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