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Students’ evaluations can be very personal and many factors can skew survey responses. But surveys can be designed to produce more valid and reliable results that could be used to improve teaching.
Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
Workplace stress among academics has long been higher in Australia and New Zealand than overseas, and research suggests the flow-on impacts on students could fuel a vicious cycle of negative feedback.
Life for graduate students can be hard work and often isolating, and COVID-19 piled on the pressures. That’s when having an academic leader and program dedicated to supporting them proved its worth.
LSAY is one of the biggest and oldest surveys of its kind in the world. It follows young Australians from the age of 15 to 25 to find out what helps and hinders them along the way.
A study or more than 500,000 surveys shows university students demonstrate bias against women teachers, and particularly women from non-English speaking backgrounds.
An administrative link between a graduate’s education and taxation records already exists, and it could be used to give us more accurate and detailed longitudinal analyses of graduate outcomes.
Lower ranked universities often outperform their highly ranked peers in student satisfaction.
Currently universities have a vast array of measures they use to gauge how successful they are. Most of the measures have a lot to do with prestige and not much to do with the outcomes of their graduates or the quality of the education their students receive.
Prospective students, parents of prospective students, and taxpayers deserve to know about the quality of teaching in our universities. But how do you measure teaching quality? Based on student results…
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Merlin Crossley is a Friend of The Conversation.Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Gavin Moodie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Chief Data Officer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
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Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Higher Education & Governance, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Management, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Bond University
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Associate Professor of Statistics, UNSW Sydney
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Survey Methodologist, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
