The missing link: Developing the nexus between student feedback surveys and development for teachers

The project 'Linking Feedback from Student Perceptions of Teaching to Active Strategies for Teaching Improvement', funded by a two year grant from the Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development, is a collaborative project between the University of Adelaide and the University of Western Australia. The project aims to provide an effective way of linking feedback on various aspects of teaching to existing resources that might assist in the development of strategies to enhance student learning through changed teaching practices. Poorly rated items in student survey reports will be linked with relevant strategies and resources through an automated system. Academics receiving feedback reports will thus be provided not only with student ratings, but also areas for development and change would be identified, and available strategies such as workshops, books, videos, CD-ROMs and web based resources would be listed. For the project team in each university, this involves auditing and classifying existing resources, establishing databases and linking selected student feedback items with resource databases.

This short presentation will provide further details about the project and a progress report on what has been achieved and learned in the first six months of the project.