initial consultation event: content workshop
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A feedback survey for taught postgraduatesWorkshop: Content and Structure
Jemima Cooper
Project Officer, HEFCE
Sarbani Banerjee
Head of Learning & Teaching, HEFCE
Future Inn, Bristol City Centre
21 September 2017
Workshop: Content and Structure
Workshop aims
Update on the work we’ve done so far
• Steering group
• External researchers
Getting your views on
• Criteria for including questions in the survey
• Topics the survey should cover
• Ideas about how to structure the survey
Opportunity to ask questions and give us your perspective
Workshop: Content and Structure
Challenges
• Diversity of PGT provision
• Different audiences
• Feasibility
Purposes/audiences
• Enhancement – institutions
• Accountability – policy makers
• Student choice – students
Focus on what the ideal survey might look like
Workshop: Content and Structure
Work so far
Postgraduate Information Steering Group
• Themes to be included
• Consideration of survey structure
• Suggested criteria for including questions
Institute for Employment Studies
• Literature review
• Expert roundtables
• Student focus groups
Questions?
Survey criteria
Survey questions should:
• Meet at least one of the three purposes
• Have potential to be influenced by providers
• Concerned with academic experience
• Be applicable across all PGT courses/providers
• Cover measurable and valid issues
• Deliver meaningful and useful data
• Produce results that are unambiguous in direction
• Address enduring issue
What do you think?
Workshop: Content and Structure
Workshop: Content and Structure
Themes and suggested grouping
Quality of teaching at appropriate level
Learning and teaching
Intellectual challenge and workload
Skills and opportunities
Agency/autonomy and development of skills
Links with research and practice
Facilitating learning
Engagement
Learning resources and learning community
Feedback on assessment and student support (academic)
Social/community factors
Student voice
Student support (pastoral) and wellbeing
Transformation
Misc…
Motivation and course choice
Expectations (course delivery consistent with
information provided)
Course organisation
Workshop: Content and Structure
Content: for discussion
• Is there anything missing?
• Which topics do you think are most important?
• Are there any topics that are not relevant?
Purposes/audiences
• Enhancement – providers• Programme leads, recruitment/marketing, student experience staff…
• Student choice – students
• Accountability – policy makers
Workshop: Content and Structure
Structure: for discussion
• Flow/ordering of questions
• Length of the survey
• Routing some respondents around certain questions
• Optional banks?
Survey criteria
Survey questions should:
• Meet at least one of the three purposes
• Have potential to be influenced by providers
• Concerned with academic experience
• Be applicable across all PGT courses/providers
• Cover measurable and valid issues
• Deliver meaningful and useful data
• Produce results that are unambiguous in direction
• Address enduring issue
What do you think?
Workshop: Content and Structure
Workshop: Content and Structure
Your input today and ongoing
• Anything important that we haven’t thought of?
• Any student groups/audiences with specific requirements for survey content/structure?
• Any other considerations about content and structure?
Timeline
• Manchester event 29 September and webinar 11 October
• Steering and advisory groups – October
• Draft proposals for pilot – November
• Formal consultation – January
Questions?
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