The Changing Topography of Student Evaluation in Higher Education: Mapping the Contemporary Terrain

Autor/in	Darwin, Stephen
Titel	The Changing Topography of Student Evaluation in Higher Education: Mapping the Contemporary Terrain
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 40 (2021) 2, S.220-233 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Darwin, Stephen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2020.1740183
Schlagwörter	College Students; Higher Education; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Rating Scales; Evaluation Methods; Student Participation; Qualitative Research; Cooperation; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Rating-Skala; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Qualitative Forschung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	The transforming contexts of higher education are heightening the imperative for more sophisticated understandings of student learning. An increasingly critical challenge is how to most effectively engage with student perspectives to more effectively understand the nature of their learning experiences. Traditionally, student ratings have been the primary means with which to understand the student voice. Although approaches to student ratings have fragmented in recent years with diversifying research interest in student satisfaction, experience and engagement, relatively limited attention has been given to the epistemological underpinnings of ratings-based surveys or toward emerging alternative approaches to engaging the student voice. This paper analyses the epistemic foundations of ratings-based methods in the context of other emerging strategies that attempt to engage with student voices more collaboratively. From this analysis, a map of the range of current and emerging approaches to the capturing of the student evaluative voice is proposed to identify their key characteristics in understanding and prospectively shaping practice. This analysis demonstrates that although alternative methods possess a clear potential to respond more effectively to the ever more complex pedagogical demands, their potential is limited by the hegemony of the 'surveyed voice' and the resource challenges of sustaining heightened student engagement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01