Assessment: Critical Incident Questionaire
These questions are adapted from Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill, Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tool and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1999), 49-51, and used by permission.
1. At what moment in your work this week did you feel most engaged with
what was happening?
2. At what moment in your work this week did
you feel most distanced from what was happening?
3. What action that anyone (teacher or student)
took in the course this week did you find most affirming or helpful?
4. What action that anyone (teacher or student)
took in the course this week did you find most puzzling or confusing?
5. What about the course this week surprised you the most? (This could be something about your own reactions to what went on, or something that someone did, or anything else that occurs to you).
6. Is there anything else you would like to say
about the course this week?