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Informationen zum Autor Professor Chenicheri Sid Nair is currently with the Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning! University of Western Australia (UWA)! Perth. Prior to his appointment to UWA! he was Quality Adviser (Research and Evaluation) in the Centre for Higher Education Quality (CHEQ) at Monash University! Australia. He has an extensive expertise in the area of quality development and evaluation! and he also has considerable editorial experience. Currently! he is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE). Prior to this he was also a Managing Editor of the Electronic Journal of Science Education (EJSE). Professor Nair is also an international consultant in a number of countries in quality and evaluations. Dr. Arun Patil is a lecturer in Engineering at the Central Queensland University! Mackay! Australia. Prior to this position! he was a research scholar in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. Patil has over 15 years of teaching and administrative experience in India and Australia and has published widely. He is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education. His recently published book Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective has been widely accepted and cited frequently in the engineering education community around the globe. Dr Patricie Mertova is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Education! University of Oxford! England. She was previously a Research Officer at the University of Queensland! and! prior to that! a Research Fellow in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) and the Centre for Higher Education Quality (CHEQ)! Monash University! Australia. She has recently completed her PhD focusing on the academic voice in higher education quality. She has research expertise in the areas of higher education and higher education quality. Her background is also in the areas of linguistics! translation! cross-cultural communication and foreign languages. Klappentext This book is the first in a series on student feedback focusing on a specific discipline! in this case engineering. It expands on topics covered in the previous book! by the same authors. Valuable contributions have been made from a variety of experts in the area of higher education quality and student feedback in the field of engineering. Zusammenfassung This book is the first in a series on student feedback focusing on a specific discipline! in this case engineering. It expands on topics covered in the previous book! by the same authors. Valuable contributions have been made from a variety of experts in the area of higher education quality and student feedback in the field of engineering. Inhaltsverzeichnis Student feedback in engineering; Advances in engineering education through student feedback in Chile; Formative student feedback: Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching; Role of 'soft' skills in engineering; Enhancing the quality of student feedback in engineering programmes in Thailand; A summative quality assurance system isn't good enough for quality enhancement; Student feedback in engineering-experience in the United Kingdom; Trends! Issues and the future of student feedback in engineering. ...
List of contents
List of figures and table
Preface
About the authors
Chapter 1: Student feedback in engineering: a discipline-specific overview and background
Abstract:
Introduction
Clarifying the purpose of collecting student feedback
Using student feedback to improve engineering education
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Advances in engineering education in Chile using student feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Student and alumni feedback in Chilean higher education
Student and alumni feedback in engineering
The case of USACH
Findings and discussion
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Formative student feedback: enhancing the quality of learning and teaching
Abstract:
Introduction
Case study: engineering education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Summative student feedback
Formative feedback
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 4: Role of soft skills in engineering education: students' perceptions and feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Background to the case study
Findings
Apprehension in meetings
Apprehension in interpersonal communication
Strategies used to enhance soft skills
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendix 4.1 importance of soft skills from students' perspective
Appendix 4.2 personal report of communication apprehension
Chapter 5: Engineering programmes in Thailand: enhancing the quality of student feedback
Abstract:
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 6: Summative quality assurance systems: not good enough for quality enhancement
Abstract:
Introduction
Formative operational evaluations
Important aspects of a system supporting an emerging quality culture
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Engineering programmes in the UK: the student feedback experience
Abstract:
Introduction
Student feedback and existing data sources
Response rates of engineering students
Engineering students in the NSS
Engineering student feedback in institutional surveys
Assessment and feedback
Conclusions
Chapter 8: Trends, issues and the future of student feedback in engineering
Abstract:
Introduction
Issues, trends and approaches
Conclusions
Index
