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Student evaluation of teaching : keeping in touch with reality

Palmer, Stuart 2012, Student evaluation of teaching : keeping in touch with reality, Quality in higher education, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 297-311.

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Title Student evaluation of teaching : keeping in touch with reality
Author(s) Palmer, Stuart
Journal name Quality in higher education
Volume number 18
Issue number 3
Start page 297
End page 311
Total pages 15
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Place of publication London, England
Publication date 2012-11
ISSN 1353-8322
1470-1081
Keyword(s) student evaluation of teaching
teaching and learning quality improvement
Summary Student evaluation of teaching is commonplace in many universities and may be the predominant input into the performance evaluation of staff and organisational units. This article used publicly available student evaluation of teaching data to present examples of where institutional responses to evaluation processes appeared to be educationally ineffective and where the pursuit of the ‘right’ student evaluation results appears to have been mistakenly equated with the aim of improved teaching and learning. If the vast resources devoted to student evaluation of teaching are to be effective, then the data produced by student evaluation systems must lead to real and sustainable improvements in teaching quality and student learning, rather than becoming an end in itself.
Language eng
Field of Research 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
Socio Economic Objective 930301 Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048983

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