A recent QAA report has highlighted that student engagement has a key role to play in self-evaluation in Scotland’s universities, and that its importance is increasing.
The report, which came from the 2012-13 Institutional Approaches to Self-Evaluation (IASE) project, looked at the range of self-evaluation activity undertaken by Scotland’s universities, such as annual monitoring and both internal and institutional reviews.
The report concludes that student engagement is a factor that has become more and more vital in self-evaluation, and there is much good practice in this field, not least work done or supported by sparqs. The report, however, notes that there are a number of areas where staff and students would like to see more development and more sharing of ideas.
sparqs has produced a short commentary on the student engagement dimension of the IASE report and the possible actions for the sector. You can download our commentary here.
