ProjectProject

Developing multi-level leadership in the use of student feedback to enhance student learning and teaching practice

Project Information

Year Funded:
2006
Grant (ex GST):
$200,000
Project Status:
Completed
Program:
Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Project Keywords:
Action learning, Assessment practice, Improving teaching capabilities, Institutional leadership capacity building, Leadership in learning and teaching, Multi-level distributed leadership, Organisational change management, Teaching large classes
Project Discipline:
Non-disciplinary

Institutions

  • RMIT University (Lead)

Project Leader

  1. Professor James Barber
    RMIT University
    dvc [at] rmit [dot] edu [dot] au

Project Websites

Project Outcome

This project aims to develop and enhance the institutional leadership capacity within RMIT University, by developing leadership in the effective use of student feedback to improve assessment for learning, teaching large classes and general teaching capabilities. Advancement in these areas of practice will result in improvement in the quality of teaching practice, the quality of programs and student learning outcomes and experiences.

The outcomes of the project will be a major report including:

  1. A distributed leadership framework in the use of student feedback to improve teaching and learning;
  2. Multi-level approaches and strategies to effect change management;
  3. Leadership project action and implementation plans for project management; dissemination; evaluation; reporting and benchmarking across the higher education sector nationally and internationally.

Project Methodology

The project uses a broad-based participatory, collaborative approach to leadership capacity building to bring about institutional change. Action learning teams form the core of the activity to respond to and use student feedback to improve assessment practices, teaching large classes and improving teaching capabilities. Leadership capacity for key roles such as Heads of Schools, Program Leaders, Course co-ordinators and Student support leaders will be identified, enhanced and developed through the establishment of communities of practice. Activities such as facilitated reflection sessions, structured professional development and focus group discussions will provide opportunities for interplay between levels of institutional leadership to develop academic leadership in the use of student feedback.

The information on this project's page was correct at the time of funding. Changes may have occurred since.

Resources

Developing multilevel leadership in the use of student feedback to enhance student learning and teaching practice

Resource Information

Year Published:
2009
Author/s:
James Barber, Sandra Jones, Brenda Novak
Institutions:
RMIT University (Lead)

Publications

File Size
Final report1.68 MB

Link

http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/altclgp/

Student Feedback and Leadership: Resource Portfolio

Resource Information

Year Published:
2009
Author/s:
James Barber, Sandra Jones, Brenda Novak
Institutions:
RMIT University (Lead)

Publications

File Size
Resource portfolio2.02 MB

Link

http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/altclgp/

The information on this project's page was updated 22 March, 2010.

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