Teaching · For Tutors

Ask the student. Change one thing.

Hand the student your device or a printed copy after a few sessions. Five short statements, the pace, and their own words. The summary shows what is working and turns each low rating into a specific change for the next session.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Tutoring business kit, $69 for 64 items.

The survey

One record per student and survey. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: For each survey, the average rating, what is working, the student’s own words and the changes to make.
Who it is for: Tutors and tutoring businesses asking students, from upper elementary to adult, how the sessions are going.
Format: Browser survey the student fills in on your device, or a printed blank. Several saved surveys per student to compare across a term; CSV; export and import a file.
Access: $12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. Students notice pace and clarity before anyone else does; asking them is the quickest check you have.

How to use it

Start a record with the student’s initials or a code.
Give the student the device or the printed copy and step away.
Read the summary together, or after the session.
Thank the student and say which change you will make.
Ask again in a few weeks and compare.

Start a survey

What the survey is for

Why ask the student

Students’ ratings of their own lessons are among the more reliable measures of teaching quality, especially on clarity and pace, and they are free and fast to collect. Acting on them, visibly, is what makes the next answers honest.

Keep it short

Five statements and two open questions take a few minutes. A long survey gets rushed answers; this one is meant to be repeated.

What this is not

It is one student’s view of the sessions, not an evaluation of the tutor or the student.

Sources

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2012). Asking Students about Teaching: Student Perception Surveys and Their Implementation. Measures of Effective Teaching project.
Kane, T. J., and Staiger, D. O. (2012). Gathering Feedback for Teaching. Measures of Effective Teaching project.
Hattie, J., and Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81 to 112.
Rowe, M. B. (1986). Wait time: slowing down may be a way of speeding up. Journal of Teacher Education, 37(1), 43 to 50.

The example student and answers are made up. Survey answers stay in this browser. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.