Quality Assurance of Assessment and Moderation Discourses Involving Sessional Staff

Autor/inn/en	Grainger, Peter; Adie, Lenore; Weir, Katie
Titel	Quality Assurance of Assessment and Moderation Discourses Involving Sessional Staff
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41 (2016) 4, S.548-559 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2015.1030333
Schlagwörter	Quality Assurance; College Faculty; Adjunct Faculty; Foreign Countries; College Outcomes Assessment; Qualitative Research; Interviews; Discourse Analysis; Teacher Influence; Teacher Role; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitätssicherung; Fakultät; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Diskursanalyse; Lehrerrolle; Australien
Abstract	Quality assurance is a major agenda in tertiary education. The casualisation of academic work, especially in teaching, is also a quality assurance issue. Casual or sessional staff members teach and assess more than 50% of all university courses in Australia, and yet the research in relation to the role sessional staff play in quality assurance of student assessment outcomes is scarce. Moderation processes are a pivotal part of robust quality assurance measures. Drawing upon previous work surrounding four discourses of moderation, this pilot project reports the results of research into the role and impact of sessional staff in moderation processes at tertiary level. Qualitative data were gathered through focus interviews. Results, in the form of various moderation discourses, indicate that sessional staff impact the formal quality assurance processes in numerous ways. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01