Preparing for success: one institution's aspirational and student focused response to the National Student Survey

This paper describes quality enhancement (QE) focused response to the 2006 National Student Survey (NSS) by a post-1992 Higher Education Institution. Recognising the increasing importance of the NSS to a wide range of stakeholders, the University established a task team to explore, from a QE perspec...

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Published inTeaching in higher education Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 607 - 618
Main Authors Flint, Abbi, Oxley, Anne, Helm, Paul, Bradley, Sally
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.12.2009
Routledge
Subjects
Academic Standards
Accountability
Action Research
dialogue
Educational Change
Educational Quality
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Institutional Research
National Surveys
Program Descriptions
quality enhancement
Student Attitudes
Student Surveys
student-focused
Test Interpretation
Undergraduate Students
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Summary:This paper describes quality enhancement (QE) focused response to the 2006 National Student Survey (NSS) by a post-1992 Higher Education Institution. Recognising the increasing importance of the NSS to a wide range of stakeholders, the University established a task team to explore, from a QE perspective, why the institution received particular scores (both high and low), and to engage in dialogue with students about our response to the results. This article describes just one aspect of this approach: an innovative, student-focused institutional level event, which was forward looking and resulted in tangible actions and outputs for colleagues and students.
ISSN:1356-2517
1470-1294
DOI:10.1080/13562510903315035