Teaching/Module Evaluations
Academic Planning Directorate facilitates participation in teaching/module evaluations through students' surveys to assist the academics to monitor the quality of their teaching/modules. AP further offers support to the academics with the development and monitoring of quality improvement plans emanating from the teaching/module evaluations.
Teaching Evaluations Aim
The overall aim of module evaluations is firstly to measure the students’ experience in the module, and secondly to identify the risk modules as early as possible and by meaningful intervention to improve the students’ experience and the module success rate and ultimately students’ academic success.
Why Teaching Evaluation?
This evaluation is a key component of Quality Enhancement and can serve several key purposes:
- Allow continuous, iterative improvement of the module’s content and teaching methods
- Provide feedback to teachers on quality of teaching
- Help lecturers understand what approaches students find valuable
- Alert lecturers to problems and suggest ways to rectify them
- Demonstrate to students that their opinions matter and concerns are acted upon
- Provide evidence of good practice to teaching and learning managers
- To support career advancement
Teaching Evaluation Process
Steps that are followed to carry out module evaluation:
- Faculties receive module evaluation notifications from AP
- AP receives module evaluation requests from faculties
- Then module evaluation links are created and distributed to faculties
- Faculties receive progress on student progress
- Evaluation reports are generated and sent to faculties
- Close of evaluation links