This report aims to assist tertiary institutions and individuals to strengthen the relationship between student feedback, teaching development and the quality of the student learning experience.
The Summary guide – Closing the loop – outlines the key recommendations for change resulting from the research and introduces the principle, “closing the loop”. A series of questions and actions are presented that support organisations and teaching staff to think about, and enhance their engagement and responses to student evaluations.
Download the report:
Report | Unlocking the impact of tertiary teachers’ perceptions of student evaluations of teaching (PDF, 3.7Mb)
Summary guide | Using student evaluations to enhance teaching practice: Closing the loop (PDF, 2.4Mb)
Background:
This project, completed in 2012, investigated tertiary teachers’ views of, and engagement with, feedback gathered through student evaluations.
A collaboration of the University of Otago, the University of Waikato and Otago Polytechnic.
The reports were prepared by Dr Sarah Stein (project lead), Dorothy Spiller, Stuart Terry, Trudy Harris, Lynley Deaker and Jo Kennedy.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF).