Start date: August 2022 Completion date: February 2023
Abstract
Student Evaluations of Courses and Teaching (SET) are often employed as a proxy for teaching and course quality in universities despite their correlation with the teaching academic’s demographics and issues unrelated to course or academic performance. Additionally, whilst it is acknowledged that specific factors impact academic development in regional contexts, research into how SET is employed in regional Australia has not been undertaken. This project thus seeks to discover how leaders in L&T across Australian regional universities employ SET; promote them; measures used to mitigate bias in the SET process; and pre/post-SET processes used to support academic development.
Project team
- Dr. Gail Crimmins (University of the Sunshine Coast)
- Dr. Sarah Casey (University of the Sunshine Coast)
- Prof. Kate Ames (Central Queensland University)
- Prof. Graham Brown (Charles Sturt University)
- Dr. Janelle Wheat (Charles Sturt University)
- Prof. Steven Warburton (University of Newcastle)
- Prof. Ruth Greenaway (Southern Cross University)
- Dr. Maxine Mitchell (Edith Cowan University)
- Dionne Amato (University of the Sunshine Coast)
- Dr. Carol Quadrelli (University of Southern Queensland)
Outputs
Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching – Good Practice Guide
Crimmins, G., Casey, S., Weber, I., & Pourfakhimi, S. (2024). Consideration of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and learning: Perspectives of learning and teaching leaders through the ethical lens of “first, do no harm”. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2367586