Motion
- Motion title
- Questionnaires to elicit student feedback on teaching
- Session
- 2018-2019
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 26 May 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE31
- Motion text
HE sector conference notes that universities elicit student feedback on teaching through questionnaires. This is in spite of clear evidence that this feedback is unrelated to teaching quality and that the feedback discriminates against women and minorities. What is worse is that at some institutions the results of these questionnaires are also used by management in decisions affecting staffing and promotions.
Branches and associations are trying to address these issues locally but it might be useful to bring these struggles together in a national campaign.
HE sector conference therefore calls on the HEC
1. to collate information at a national level about the use of module evaluations, and
2. to explore how such a campaign might best be constructed based on this evidence, and
3. to bring proposals for such a campaign to the next meeting of HE sector conference.
- Proposing body
- Lincoln University
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/H/05-26/207/HE31