Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Lorraine Stefani

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can Academic Developers provide evidence of the effectiveness and ‘added value’ of their work to the key stakeholders within their institutions? Written for Academic Developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development is a professional guide that shares best practice advice and provides developers with useful frameworks for effective evaluation and monitoring of their work. Through case studies and up-to-date examples from experts in the field, this collection explores the nuances of evaluative practice and the tensions inherent in claiming a causal link between academic development and organizational transformation. As higher education institutions continue to seek effective ways to determine the impact of academic development on organizational transformation in general and student learning in particular, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development is sure to be an invaluable resource.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
I: Evaluation of Academic Practice......Page 16
1 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development: An Overview......Page 18
2 Locating Academic Development: The First Step in Evaluation......Page 32
3 The Quality Agenda: Where Does Academic Development Sit?......Page 46
4 Demonstrating Fitness for Purpose: Phronesis and Authenticity as Overarching Purposes......Page 60
5 Using Student Survey Data to Shape: Priorities and Approaches......Page 74
6 Innovation and Change: Responding to a Digital Environment......Page 88
II: Case Studies of Evaluative Practice......Page 102
Case Study 1: Whaia te pae tawhiti: Māori Academic Development at the University of Auckland......Page 104
Case Study 2: Academic Partnership: Peer Mentoring with Early-Career Academics......Page 114
Case Study 3: Tending the Secret Garden: Evaluating a Doctoral Skills Programme......Page 124
Case Study 4: Evaluation as Bricolage: Cobbling Together a Strategy for Appraising Supervision Development......Page 132
Case Study 5: Archiving for the Future: A Longitudinal Approach to Evaluating a Postgraduate Certificate Programme......Page 142
Case Study 6: Tracking the Invisible: An eLearning Group’s Approach to Evaluation......Page 148
Case Study 7: Continuous Improvement Projects: Whose Evaluation Matters?......Page 158
Case Study 8: Leadership Programmes: Evaluation as a Way Forward......Page 168
III: Evaluation of Large-Scale Development Projects......Page 182
7 Accreditation, Accountability and Assessment: Addressing Multiple Agendas......Page 184
8 An Institutional Programme: A National Model for Evaluation?......Page 198
9 Evaluation Matters in a National, Funded Academic Development Project......Page 212
10 Impact Evaluation and its Implications......Page 224
11 Evaluation of Academic Development: Looking to the Future......Page 236
Contributors......Page 242
Index......Page 248