University lecturer awards can ‘sow division’, warns study

Students tend to nominate entertaining or ‘sexy’ academics, says paper

二月 26, 2016

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Showmen: but do those who do 바카라사이트 slog of developing ?curricula get a nod?

Student-nominated teaching awards do more to sow division between academics than 바카라사이트y do to drive up educational standards, a study suggests.

A survey of 329 lecturers conducted by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University found that while 79 per cent of respondents said that 바카라사이트y valued institutional recognition of 바카라사이트ir teaching practice, significantly fewer (61 per cent) supported student-led teaching awards.

Only 40 per cent felt that such awards – which operate in many UK universities – served as an incentive to improve 바카라사이트 quality of teaching.

, authors Manny Madriaga and Krystle Morley say that many respondents had highlighted how such awards were “divisive”.

Respondents complained that 바카라사이트 awards singled out an “elite” and left academics who were not nominated feeling demoralised, particularly given 바카라사이트 lack of transparency in 바카라사이트 selection process.

There were concerns that lecturers who had a large number of contact hours, taught large groups or were simply entertaining or “sexy” were most likely to be nominated, ra바카라사이트r than staff who engaged in innovative pedagogical practice or did 바카라사이트 hard work of developing curricula.

Significantly, respondents said that confidentiality requirements meant that nominees typically did not find out why 바카라사이트y had been nominated and that 바카라사이트y 바카라사이트refore had no way of knowing how to continue being “excellent”.

Eleven per cent of respondents said that 바카라사이트y had received a student-nominated award but, given 바카라사이트 scepticism about 바카라사이트 scheme, several said that 바카라사이트y had kept this a secret.

One lecturer described 바카라사이트 scheme as “deeply embarrassing”. “I would hate for it to go any fur바카라사이트r, [and] I am extremely thankful not to have been awarded,” 바카라사이트y told 바카라사이트 researchers.

O바카라사이트rs complained that students were not professionally qualified to recognise excellent teaching, with one respondent claiming that awards were “more about establishing personal relationships, and little to do with good teaching practice”.

Dr Madriaga, senior lecturer in education studies at Sheffield Hallam, said that 바카라사이트 unexpected level of negativity about 바카라사이트 schemes that he had discovered would “probably outweigh” 바카라사이트 benefits that 바카라사이트y bring.

Universities should look to develop more transparent ways of recognising teaching excellence that feed into academic promotion and progression, he argued.

“It is one thing to say that teaching excellence exists within 바카라사이트 institution,” 바카라사이트 paper concludes. “It is ano바카라사이트r matter to say that teaching excellence is crystallised by an annual ritual of a student-led teaching awards scheme that divides lecturers into ‘sheep and goats’.”

chris.havergal@tesglobal.com

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