Student evaluation in higher education : reconceptualising the student voice / Stephen Darwin.
Darwin, Stephen, author.
2016
LB2333 .D37 2016
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Title Student evaluation in higher education : reconceptualising the student voice / Stephen Darwin.
Author Darwin, Stephen, author.
ISBN 9783319418933 (electronic book)
3319418939 (electronic book)
3319418920
9783319418926
3319418920
Published Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 185 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 9783319418926
Call Number LB2333 .D37 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1
Summary This book provides a comprehensive and engaging analysis of the purpose and function of student evaluation in higher education. It explores its foundations and the emerging functions, as well as its future potential to improve the quality of university teaching and student learning. The book systematically assesses the core assumptions underpinning the design of student evaluation models as a tool to improve the quality of teaching. It also analyses the emerging influence of student opinion as a key metric and a powerful proxy for assuring the quality of teachers, teaching and courses in universities. Using the voices of teachers in the day-to-day practices of higher education, the book also explores the actual perceptions held by academics about student evaluation. It offers the first real attempt to critically analyse the developing influence of student evaluation on contemporary approaches to academic teaching. Using a practice-based perspective and the powerful explanatory potential of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), the implications of the changing focus in the use of the student voice - from development to measurement - are systematically explored and assessed. Importantly, using the evidence provided by a unique series of practice-based case studies, the book also offers powerful new insights into how the student voice can be reconceptualised to more effectively improve the quality of teaching, curriculum and assessment. Based on this empirical analysis, a series of practical strategies are proposed to enhance the work of student evaluation in the future university to drive pedagogical innovation. This unique volume provides those interested in student evaluation with a more complex understanding of the development, contemporary function and future potential of the student voice. It also demonstrates how the student voice - in combination with professional dialogue - can be used to encourage more powerful and substantial forms of pedagogical improvement and academic development in higher education environments.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185).
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Source of Description Online resource and print version record; title from PDF title page (viewed August 16, 2016).
Available in Other Form Student evaluation in higher education.
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1. The Emergence of Student Evaluation in Higher Education
2. Research on the Design and Function of Student Evaluation
3. What Higher Education Teachers Think About Quantitative Student Evaluation
4. Analysing the Potential of Student Evaluation in Practice
5. Student Evaluation in Situated Practice
The Case of a Recently Designed Program
6. Student Evaluation in Situated Practice
The Case of an Established Program
7. Assurance or Improvement: What Work Can Student Evaluation Most Effectively Perform?
8. Assessing the Developmental Potential of Student Feedback
9. Charting New Approaches to Student Evaluation
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