Responding to the SCEQ
The SCEQ data provides faculties with a useful resource to inform strategic teaching and curriculum developments. The ITL has convened the Evaluation and Quality Assurance Working Group to support faculties in making the best use of data such as the SCEQ.
The Evaluation and Quality Assurance (EQA) working group has representatives from the different faculties who were nominated by their Deans. The members of this group are:
| Faculty | Name | |
| Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources | Sarah Mansfield | s.mansfield@usyd.edu.au |
| Architecture, Design & Planning | Duanfang Lu | duanfang@arch.usyd.edu.au |
| Arts | Marie-Therese Barbaux-Couper | mtb@arts.usyd.edu.au |
| Dentistry | Shalinie King | shalinie@dentistry.usyd.edu.au |
| Economics and Business | Mark Freeman & Amani Bell | m.freeman@econ.usyd.edu.au ; a.bell@econ.usyd.edu.au |
| Education and Social Work | Fran Waugh | f.waugh@edfac.usyd.edu.au |
| Engineering and Information Technologies | David Airey | D.Airey@civil.usyd.edu.au |
| Health Sciences | Steve Cumming as contact until advised of new rep | FHS.LTDirector@usyd.edu.au |
| Law | Elisabeth Peden | E.Peden@usyd.edu.au |
| Medicine | Rola Ajjawi | rajjawi@med.usyd.edu.au |
| Nursing and Midwifery | Trudy Rudge | t.rudge@usyd.edu.au |
| Pharmacy | Jane Hanrahan | janeh@pharm.usyd.edu.au |
| Science | Tom Hubble | hubble@mail.usyd.edu.au |
| Summer School | Jillian Stewart | j.stewart@usyd.edu.au |
| Sydney College of the Arts | Jane Gavan | J.Gavan@sca.usyd.edu.au |
| Sydney Conservatorium of Music | Diane Collins | diane.collins@usyd.edu.au |
| Veterinary Science | Rosanne Taylor | rosannet@vetsci.usyd.edu.au |
| Executive Officer (Quality Assurance) |
The Institute for Teaching and Learning can provide support to faculties in the following ways:
Support in disseminating SCEQ results to staff in faculties. The ITL provides the SCEQ web site in order that staff and students of The University can access the results of the SCEQ. Staff of the University are advised of the web site address and the availability of each year’s SCEQ results by email and flier.
The staff of the ITL are also available to support faculty based dissemination activities such as faculty information sessions and workshops to encourage staff to consider the SCEQ results.
Support for faculties in interpreting SCEQ results. The Evaluation and Quality Assurance Working Group is intended to provide faculties with support in interpreting their SCEQ results.
Staff of the ITL are also available to meet with faculty teaching committees or other faculty representatives to support such groups in their consideration of the faculty’s SCEQ data.
Such faculty based consultation through the EQA group or faculty committees might encompass:
- Support in identifying particular strengths and weaknesses and strategies to effectively address these
- Support in identifying relevant issues to investigate further and the formulation of collaborative research strategies to effect such investigations
- Support in interpreting results and in identifying potential contributing factors
- Support in making use of the students open response comments and consideration of the issues identified in these.
Support for faculties in addressing teaching and learning issues identified by the SCEQ. This is a major function of the EQA working group. The group works on the development of strategies and resources to support faculties in addressing particular teaching and learning issues identified in the SCEQ data. For instance the ITL might collaborate with the EQA group on the development of a series of faculty based workshops addressing best practice in aspects of teaching and learning identified in the SCEQ, for instance "Appropriate Assessment" or "Clear Goals and Standards". The group might also collaborate to identify strategies to successfully reward and share existing examples of quality teaching practices identified by the SCEQ results.
Resources developed by the EQA working group along with notes from the meetings of the working group are available on the EQA Working Group website.
If you would like to get involved in your faculty’s response to the SCEQ results please contact your faculty representative on the EQA Working Group.
