Enhancing Learning and Teaching Through Student Feedback in Social Sciences

✍ Scribed by Chenicheri Sid Nair and Patricie Mertova (Eds.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Series: Chandos Learning and Teaching Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap in their first book Student Feedback: The cornerstone to an effective quality assurance system in higher education. In recent years, student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. This is an edited book with contributions by experts in higher education quality and particularly student feedback in social science disciplines from a range of countries, such as Australia, Europe, Canada, the USA, the UK and India. This book is concerned with the practices of evaluation and higher education quality in social science disciplines, with particular focus on student feedback.

• The first book of its kind on student feedback specific to social sciences and will be a scholarly resource for all stakeholders to enhance learning/teaching through student feedback
• Will interrogate student feedback in social science disciplines, on the basis of establishing a better understanding of its forms, purposes and effectiveness in learning
• Contributions come from experienced academics, experts and practitioners in the area

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Page ix
Preface, Pages xi-xii, Chenicheri Sid Nair, Patricie Mertova
About the authors, Pages xiii-xviii
1 - Playing broken telephone with student feedback: the possibilities and issues of transformation within a South African case of a collegial rationality model of evaluation, Pages 1-27, Dina Zoe Belluigi
2 - Listening to students’ voices to enhance their experience of university, Pages 29-44, Mahsood Shah
3 - Feedback cycles or evaluation systems? A critical analysis of the current trends in student feedback in Austrian social sciences, Pages 45-68, Oliver Vettori, Nina Miklavc
4 - Synchronous feedback: receiving feedback from international students, Pages 69-81, Iqbal Akthar
5 - Using programme-level student feedback: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pages 83-109, Keith Thomas
6 - Usefulness of student feedback: the Singapore experience, Pages 111-144, Kim Chuan Goh, Noi Keng Koh
7 - Teacher perceptions of the introduction of student evaluation of teaching in Japanese tertiary education, Pages 145-169, Peter Burden
8 - Improvements to formative feedback: views of staff and students, Pages 171-199, Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis
9 - Emerging trends and approaches in the student voice in the social sciences, Pages 201-208, Chenicheri Sid Nair, Patricie Mertova
Index, Pages 209-215