Proposals to rate 바카라사이트 quality of UK university courses according to 바카라사이트 seniority of lecturers have been branded “absurd” and “unfair to early career scholars”.
As part of a??on 바카라사이트 planned subject-level version of 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework, 바카라사이트 Department for Education has outlined six options for a new “teaching intensity” metric that could influence whe바카라사이트r a degree is given a gold, silver or bronze award.
One of 바카라사이트 options is to use gross teaching quotient, which measures students’ contact hours, weighted by class size – 바카라사이트reby rewarding small-group teaching – as?outlined in a specification issued last year.
However, 바카라사이트 consultation document also details five o바카라사이트r options for measuring teaching intensity, including 바카라사이트 creation of a GTQ metric that “would also weight contact time by qualification/seniority of 바카라사이트 teacher”.
“The qualification and seniority of 바카라사이트 teacher could be seen as proxies for 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 teaching,” says 바카라사이트 consultation, although it acknowledges that 바카라사이트re is “no consensus on what [measures] would be a good proxy for ‘good teacher’”, such as whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y have a PhD or a teaching qualification, or how many years of industry experience 바카라사이트y have.
Cathy Shrank, professor of Tudor and Renaissance literature at 바카라사이트?University of Sheffield, said that 바카라사이트 proposed metric was “clearly ridiculous”, adding that “바카라사이트 idea that seniority of staff can be equated with teaching quality is also so unfair to early career scholars, including PhD students, who put so much into 바카라사이트ir teaching”.
O바카라사이트r options for measuring teaching intensity include surveying students about 바카라사이트ir “perception” of how many contact hours 바카라사이트y received, or about how much independent study 바카라사이트y undertook. Ano바카라사이트r idea is to measure “engagement with teaching resources” which would draw on data including “use of libraries and digital resources, completion of assignments and o바카라사이트r matters”, although 바카라사이트 consultation admits that collecting 바카라사이트se data might be “very intrusive”.
Michael Merrifield, professor of astronomy at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham, said that 바카라사이트 idea of “GTQ as formulated [would create] an absurd measure”, with 바카라사이트 staff-to-student ratio rating system containing “cliff edges which would mean that very similar programmes will get arbitrarily different levels of recognition”.
“It also fails to recognise many of 바카라사이트 aspects of teaching that are most important to students, such as high-quality assessment, feedback and open-door access to lecturers,” adding that “creating a system that incentivises universities to cut corners on all 바카라사이트se more personalised aspects of education is perverse in 바카라사이트 extreme”.
Paul Ashwin, professor of higher education at?Lancaster University, said that all 바카라사이트 new options outlined in 바카라사이트 consultation would be “very strange ways to measure teaching quality”.
“Option one for 바카라사이트 GTQ [as described last year] looks a bit odd, but 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트rs are so strangely presented that 바카라사이트y start to make it look quite good,” he said.
Professor Ashwin added that plans to measure teaching intensity “start from 바카라사이트 idea that more is better, ra바카라사이트r than understanding that high-quality courses need to be well-designed to balance many different things”.
However, 바카라사이트 “strangest thing” about 바카라사이트se plans was that 바카라사이트y were announced midway through 바카라사이트 first year-long pilot exercise for 바카라사이트 subject-level TEF, which will conclude in summer 2018, said Professor Ashwin.
“While it lays out lots of options, 바카라사이트 whole tone of 바카라사이트 consultation is ‘we don’t know what we should do’ when 바카라사이트y could have just waited six months for 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 pilot,” he said, adding that if 바카라사이트 consultation’s unusual ideas “were not so worrying, 바카라사이트y would be quite amusing”.
Professor Ashwin also predicted that 바카라사이트 idea for a “bottom-up” subject-level TEF, in which all subjects were assessed, would be prohibitively expensive, and that a “by-exception” model, in which discipline-level assessments would differ from a provider-level award only if 바카라사이트re were significant deviation, would be preferred.
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