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Enhancing Learning and Teaching Through Student Feedback in Engineering
- 1st Edition - January 16, 2012
- Editors: Chenicheri Sid Nair, Arun Patil, Patricie Mertova
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 4 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 9 9 - 5
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Request a sales quoteStudent feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students’ tertiary experience. Despite this, there has been a relative lack of academic literature available, especially in a book format. This book focuses on the experiences of academics, higher education leaders and managers with expertise in these areas.Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Student Feedback in Engineering is the first in a series on student feedback focusing on a specific discipline, in this case engineering. It expands on topics covered in the previous book, by the same authors. Valuable contributions have been made from a variety of experts in the area of higher education quality and student feedback in the field of engineering.
- Will interrogate student feedback in engineering, on the basis of establishing a better understanding of its forms, purposes and effectiveness in learning
- The first book of its kind on student feedback in engineering education and will be a scholarly resource for all stakeholders to enhance learning and teaching practices thorough student feedback
- Written by experienced academics, experts and practitioners in the area
Academics, managers and leaders involved in higher engineering education worldwide
List of figures and table
Preface
About the authors
Chapter 1: Student feedback in engineering: a discipline-specific overview and background
Abstract:
Introduction
Clarifying the purpose of collecting student feedback
Using student feedback to improve engineering education
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Advances in engineering education in Chile using student feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Student and alumni feedback in Chilean higher education
Student and alumni feedback in engineering
The case of USACH
Findings and discussion
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Formative student feedback: enhancing the quality of learning and teaching
Abstract:
Introduction
Case study: engineering education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Summative student feedback
Formative feedback
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 4: Role of soft skills in engineering education: students' perceptions and feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Background to the case study
Findings
Apprehension in meetings
Apprehension in interpersonal communication
Strategies used to enhance soft skills
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendix 4.1 importance of soft skills from students' perspective
Appendix 4.2 personal report of communication apprehension
Chapter 5: Engineering programmes in Thailand: enhancing the quality of student feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 6: Summative quality assurance systems: not good enough for quality enhancement
Abstract:
Introduction
Formative operational evaluations
Important aspects of a system supporting an emerging quality culture
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Engineering programmes in the UK: the student feedback experience
Abstract:
Introduction
Student feedback and existing data sources
Response rates of engineering students
Engineering students in the NSS
Engineering student feedback in institutional surveys
Assessment and feedback
Conclusions
Chapter 8: Trends, issues and the future of student feedback in engineering
Abstract:
Introduction
Issues, trends and approaches
Conclusions
Index
- No. of pages: 164
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 16, 2012
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9781843346456
- eBook ISBN: 9781780632995
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Chenicheri Sid Nair
Professor Sid Nair is currently Executive Dean and Dean Learning, Teaching and Student Experience at the Victorian Institute of Technology (VIT), Australia where he is responsible for the learning, teaching, student experience and quality matters of the Institution.
Previous to this appointment at VIT, Sid was the Executive Director of the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), Mauritius, the apex regulatory body where he was responsible for the formulation and execution of strategies, policies and procedures in the higher education sector in Mauritius.
Prior to joining TEC, he was Professor of Higher Education Development at the Centre for Education Futures (CEF), University of Western Australia. His role was to build the capacity of academics in the digital delivery of their teaching. His career path also had him as Interim Director and Quality Advisor (Evaluations and Research) at the Centre for Higher Education Quality (CHEQ) at Monash University, Australia where he headed the evaluation unit at Monash University. In this capacity he restructured the evaluation framework at the university. The approach to evaluations at Monash has been noted in the first round of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) audits and is part of the good practice database.
His research work lies in the areas of quality in the higher education system, classroom and school environments, and the implementation of improvements from stakeholder feedback. He has extensive lecturing experience in the applied sciences in Canada, Singapore and Australia. He is an international consultant in quality and evaluations in higher education.
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Dean and Dean Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, Victorian Institute of Technology (VIT), AustraliaAP
Arun Patil
Dr. Arun Patil is a lecturer in Engineering at the Central Queensland University, Mackay, Australia. Prior to this position, he was a research scholar in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. Patil has over 15 years of teaching and administrative experience in India and Australia and has published widely. He is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education. His recently published book Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective has been widely accepted and cited frequently in the engineering education community around the globe.
Affiliations and expertise
Central Queensland University, AustraliaPM
Patricie Mertova
Dr Patricie Mertova is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, England. She was previously a Research Officer at the University of Queensland, and, prior to that, a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) and the Centre for Higher Education Quality (CHEQ), Monash University, Australia. She has recently completed her PhD focusing on the academic voice in higher education quality. She has research expertise in the areas of higher education and higher education quality. Her background is also in the areas of linguistics, translation, cross-cultural communication and foreign languages.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Oxford, UKRead Enhancing Learning and Teaching Through Student Feedback in Engineering on ScienceDirect