This report is a how-to guide to help practitioners answer the question: How do I know what I am doing is working and making a difference to my students’ learning?
This is a high-level guide intended to help you start to gather and use data to help determine how well what you are doing is supporting and improving your students’ learning. It is designed to provide some initial advice on how you can gather and use data to reflect on and examine the practices that happen every day in tertiary settings.
The guide shows examples of the types of data you may have available or can collect, and provides suggestions about types of data to collect, how to collect them, and how to think about the evidence you’ve collected. It discusses how you can use the conclusions drawn from the data to find out more about the impact of what you are doing, and then use this information to refine and improve your practice.
the guide does not provide information on how to analyse data. Nor does it discuss in detail specific research methodologies, data analysis, or principles of research design.
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Background:
A project completed for Ako Aotearoa by Anne Alkema in 2011 to collect evidence of learner benefit and publish a how-to guide to support the reflective practice of tertiary education practitioners.