ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how instructors can reflect on and assess their own teaching using both formative and summative assessments. Additionally, the chapter discusses how to solicit and use feedback from students and from other instructors. It provides the reader with specific examples of how to evaluate their assessments and how to use assessment results and student feedback to refine and improve their teaching. Systematic reflection is a learning process where learners analyze both their behavior and the contribution of their behavior on performance outcomes. A technique to evaluate and improve one's own teaching is to use the assessments administered to students. In addition to using summative assessments to determine teaching effectiveness, formative assessments can also serve this purpose well. Exam or assignment wrappers are often used in classes to facilitate students’ metacognitive awareness, although some recent studies have failed to find improvements in student performance or metacognition from exam wrappers.
