Overview
Comprehensive and engaging exploration of student evaluation in higher education
Analysis of the conventional role, emerging functions and future potential of the student voice
Provides a unique insight into contemporary academic perceptions of student evaluation
Using practice-based case studies, offers new and powerful insights into the use of the student voice
Offers new student evaluation strategies to drive pedagogical innovation in the future university
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Student evaluation in higher education
- Student ratings instruments in higher education
- Student surveys in higher education
- Quantitative student evaluation
- Qualitative student evaluation
- History of student evaluation in higher education
- Epistemologies of student evaluation
- Broadening forms of student evaluation in higher education
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
- Action research in higher education
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory and action research
- CHAT and action research
- Innovative approaches to student evaluation
- Improving teaching in higher education
- Improving higher education curriculum
- Improving higher education assessment
- Boundary crossing between universities and work
- Professional dialogue in academic teaching
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive and engaging analysis of the purpose and function of student evaluation in higher education. It explores its foundations and the emerging functions, as well as its future potential to improve the quality of university teaching and student learning.
The book systematically assesses the core assumptions underpinning the design of student evaluation models as a tool to improve the quality of teaching. It also analyses the emerging influence of student opinion as a key metric and a powerful proxy for assuring the quality of teachers, teaching and courses in universities. Using the voices of teachers in the day-to-day practices of higher education, the book also explores the actual perceptions held by academics about student evaluation.
It offers the first real attempt to critically analyse the developing influence of student evaluation on contemporary approaches to academic teaching. Using a practice-based perspective and the powerful explanatory potential of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), the implications of the changing focus in the use of the student voice - from development to measurement - are systematically explored and assessed.
Importantly, using the evidence provided by a unique series of practice-based case studies, the book also offers powerful new insights into how the student voice can be reconceptualised to more effectively improve the quality of teaching, curriculum and assessment. Based on this empirical analysis, a series of practical strategies are proposed to enhance the work of student evaluation in the future university to drive pedagogical innovation.
This unique volume provides those interested in student evaluation with a more complex understanding of the development, contemporary function and future potential of the student voice. It also demonstrates how the student voice - in combination with professional dialogue - can be used to encourage more powerful and substantial forms of pedagogical improvement and academic development in higher education environments.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Evaluation in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Reconceptualising the Student Voice
Authors: Stephen Darwin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41893-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41892-6Published: 29 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82457-4Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41893-3Published: 15 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 185
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education