Evaluation
- Evaluation- In a nutshell - 5 minute overview
Evaluation of any activity is a vital part of a quality assurance process. Evaluation can be formative (sequential and progressive improvement) or summative (for a program review, or academic promotion or probation). At UniSA, our Teaching and Learning Framework utilises the ADRI cycle (Approach, Deployment, Results and Improvement) to support the improvement of student learning outcomes.
Policy A35-A - Quality assurance and improvement: Programs, courses and teaching arrangements, sets the framework for the quality assurance for UniSA's courses and programs. This includes
- the evaluation of some element of a course every time it is taught
- annual program reports
- periodic program evaluation reports (PER).
Evaluation tools
The University provides a range of online tools and devices through which academic staff have the flexibility to pursue their own strategies to reflect on and improve aspects of their teaching and learning.
There are many stakeholders in teaching and learning and each should be consulted to provide balanced evaluations. The following links will take you to information and tools to allow you to conduct or analyse evaluation data.
Student perceptions of their teaching and learning experiences through standard instruments
- Courses and teaching - Course Evaluation Instrument (CEI);
Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET)
- Set up a survey
- CEI help instructions
- SET help instructions
- Online or manual administration
- Get data through UniSA Public, section 7, in UniSAInfo;
- School wide CEI summary data available;
- Analysing feedback from CEI surveys to improve teaching and learning
- strategies for responding to student comments to promote learning (article by Hodges & Stanton, 2008)
- Learning environment - Student Experience Questionnaire (SEQ)
- Get data through UniSA Public, section 7, in UniSAInfo
- Program - National survey of graduates called the Course Experience
questionnaire (CEQ) and Graduate Destination Survey (GDS),
- Get data through UniSA Public, section 7, in UniSAInfo)
- Using CEQ data to improve teaching and learning
Student perceptions of teaching through non-standard instruments
- TellUs2 surveys can be tailored to your needs - TellUs2 help
- Focus groups
Non-student perceptions of teaching and learning (staff, employers of graduates, professional societies)
- Peer review of teaching (Overview - How to)
- TellUs2 surveys - TellUs2 help
- Focus groups
Benchmarking
- Benchmarking programs against other comparable programs is a key evaluation activity when completing a Program evaluation report.
- Comparing CEI and SET data to that of your peers
For further assistance with evaluation please contact your:
- Head of School,
- Divisional Dean: Teaching and Learning
- Academic development staff at Learning Connection
- Planning and Assurance Services team.