Student evaluations of teaching as 'fact-totems': The case of the UK National Student Survey Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Date:
- 18 April 2012
- Venue:
- Building 32 room 2097 All Welcome Tea and Coffee provided The seminar will be relevant to a wide variety of staff and students
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Mike Tomlinson at M.B.Tomlinson@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Higher Education Research SIG
Taking the UK National Student Survey (NSS) as a case study of student evaluations of teaching (SET), this paper draws on two preliminary studies conducted within one UK university. I will argue that the production and consumption of such survey data have a symbolic value that far exceeds, and is often independent of, any technical understanding of their statistical meaning of students, academics and managers in higher education
Speaker information
Dr Duna Sabri , Kings College, London. Dr Duna Sabri research interests include sociology of higher education, pedagogy and institutional and (inter)national policy relating to HE.