Thinking or talking about teaching? Student evaluation as an occasion for dialogue or reflection on teaching

TY - JOUR

T1 - Thinking or talking about teaching? Student evaluation as an occasion for dialogue or reflection on teaching

AU - Kusk Søndergaard , Mie

AU - Degn, Lise

AU - Lassesen, Berit

PY - 2024/9

Y1 - 2024/9

N2 - Using student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as a quality assessment tool have long been a highly debated topic among both practitioners and scholars of higher education teaching. Rather than focus on whether SETs provide reliable measurements of quality, we explore what happens when SETs are implemented as or intended as quality development tools. We report from a qualitative study of how higher education teachers and managers perceive and use SETs as part of developing their own teaching, and focus on how the dialogue around teaching, which was intended as a part of the quality assessment procedure, is actualized (or not) in practice.

AB - Using student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as a quality assessment tool have long been a highly debated topic among both practitioners and scholars of higher education teaching. Rather than focus on whether SETs provide reliable measurements of quality, we explore what happens when SETs are implemented as or intended as quality development tools. We report from a qualitative study of how higher education teachers and managers perceive and use SETs as part of developing their own teaching, and focus on how the dialogue around teaching, which was intended as a part of the quality assessment procedure, is actualized (or not) in practice.

KW - Higher education

KW - Quality

KW - Sensemaking

KW - Student evaluation

KW - Teaching

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85204044484&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11233-024-09140-7

DO - 10.1007/s11233-024-09140-7

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1573-1936

VL - 30

SP - 147

EP - 163

JO - Tertiary Education and Management

JF - Tertiary Education and Management

IS - 2

ER -