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9 August 2002, Queen's University, Belfast

Background

Evaluation lies at the heart of improving teaching and learning. Whatever way you look at it, change only comes about when you determine to make a change. In order to come to that determination, you must first consider your current practice, and come to the conclusion that change is necessary. If you don't want to change your practice, if you don't want to improve your practice, if you don't want to improve the learning experience of your students, then there is no need to evaluate the learning experience of your students or the learning environment you have created for them.

However, if you are keen to improve the learning experience of your students, then it is important for you to consider where change can best be effected. You need to begin by evaluating that experience. Appropriate and effective evaluation can lead to appropriate and effective change and development. Indeed, evaluation should not be seen as something additional to your teaching. It should be seen as an integral part of the design and delivery of a programme of teaching for high quality student learning.

  

In this workshop, we will explore different ways in which we can evaluate our teaching practice by looking at different ways we might evaluate the students' learning experience. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to:

• Identify and describe the learning outcomes you are trying to achieve for your students
• Distinguish between the different kinds of outcomes commonly achieved in Higher Education
• Describe some of the most common evaluation systems used in Higher Education
• Evaluate these systems and determine those that are suitable for your purposes
• Begin to develop your own evaluation techniques to enable you to carry out evaluations to suit your own purposes
• Identify how you can build evaluation into your own teaching as a normal part of your design and development practice

The workshop will introduce and use internationally recognised techniques for evaluating the student learning experience, and will give you the opportunity to discuss and consider how you might use these and your own techniques to help you to evaluate the learning experience of your students, and to improve this experience.

Registration

To register for this event, please complete and submit the form below. No charge will be made for attending this event.