Evaluate Report February 2015
April 16, 2015
Evaluate was introduced in September 2014 to electronically collect Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) and Student Evaluation of Module (SEM) feedback. This replaced previous paper based SET and SEM questionnaires. On 16/1/2015, Information Services extracted all the UK surveys in Evaluate and sent this as a spreadsheet to Professional Development. The following results are from …
The road to Senior Fellowship of the HEA
February 5, 2015
Maris Farquharson: “Whilst completing our PhDs at Nottingham University Business School, UK in 2006/7 a friend suggested that, if we were to consider lecturing as a career, then getting the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) was a must. We were subsequently exposed to a comprehensive overview by the PGCHE team leading a series …
Perspectives on students in partnership
April 29, 2014
Audio >> Prof. Wyn Morgan, Prof. Julie Sanders, Prof. Stephen Doughty and Dasha Kurzunina talk about what partnership means to them. Perspectives on students in partnership was a plenary session at the Students in Conversation conference (April 2014). The transcript from Dasha’s presentation is available below: Dasha Karzunina: “Hello and welcome. I’m here to talk …
Psychology’s “open doors”
June 18, 2013
Dr Richard Tunney: “Academics have always sought to strike a balance between their roles as teachers and as researchers. That balance has probably shifted one way or the other as a knock on effect of the changing priorities of governments and universities. Recent years have seen university schools and departments responding to changing student expectations …
Teaching for Me
June 10, 2013
Prof. Sue Pryce: “ ‘The secret of success is constancy to purpose’ (Disraeli). Mrs Ringer, a teacher of English language wrote this on the board, on the first day I attended a GCE ‘O’ Level course at Poole College of Further Education. It proved to be inspirational for someone who had left school at 15 …
Valuing our teaching
February 1, 2011
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “I think recognising excellent teaching is hugely important and before I came to Nottingham, I was impressed from afar with the Lord Dearing Awards because they seemed to me to be an explicit and overt way of really celebrating teaching within the University. They are very competitive and the award of them …
Katharina Lorenz on teaching critical skills
Video >> Katharina Lorenz: “There’s an advantage looking at Classics to actually practice some of the analytical skills one needs to understand cultures better. “I think this is one of the real essence of doing something like Classics is to force people to be very, to scrutinise what they see in the world around them …
Modelling professional practice for students on a work placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Learning set meeting Alison: “So your portfolio, in some ways, will be very different, Jenny, to Jo’s, because you’ve had a much more observation and insight experience, lots of visits, learning to appreciate what factors affect the patient with neurological problems in the community, and that’s what I would expect to see in …
A mentor’s role in placement learning
Video >> Alison Clark: “The role of the mentor is to provide dedicated clinical supervision to that student, to keep them safe in practice but also that they learn those core skills and the core knowledge that makes them safe to be practitioners once they’re qualified.” Pam Winn: “I think it’s my job to make …
The academic’s role in supporting placement mentors
Video >> Alison Clark: “Well, the students are given an assessment of practice record, which has a range of proficiency statements that the Nursing and Midwifery Council expect them to achieve over a three year period. The mentors then, have to interpret that in the practice setting, and then they make the decision how much …
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