“Teaching Analysis Polls” are a very useful method to get formative, constructive feedback from a whole class. An external facilitator comes in and structures an approximately 30 minute long discussion without the instructor, who is later informed about the points that the students agreed on were most relevant to convey. In Kordts et al. (2025) we give very concrete instructions of how to conduct the process and discuss our own experiences using it at the Geophysical Institute. Go read it here!
Kordts, R., de Vareilles, M., Daae, K., Gandrud, E., Årvik, A.D., and Glessmer, M.S. (2025). “TAP: Teaching Analysis Poll for student feedback”. Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025.305