1. Internal Subject Review Training Tuesday 9 th November 2010 Slaveya Angelska, Associate Trainer Sareta Puri, Development Advisor

2. Learning Outcomes By the end of today you should have: Developed your understanding of the nature, purpose and process of Internal Subject Reviews Familiarised yourself with the self-evaluation document Developed an understanding of the skills required in undertaking reviews and how to develop these skills

3. Why did you become a reviewer? Why is it important to involve students in internal subject reviews?

4. Background of Internal Subject Reviews

5. Background Quality Enhancement Framework Guidance from the Scottish Funding Council Behind the words… → Internal → Subject → Review

6. Behind the words… INTERNAL → Institution-specific → Institution-led SUBJECT → Specific subject/overall discipline/school/faculty → Taught courses and research → Support services REVIEW → Evaluates the student experience → Good practice and areas for enhancement

7. Student learning experience Student Learning Experience 1. Curriculum 2. Learning resources and their deployment 3. Learning and teaching 4. Assessment and achievement 5. Student progression and outcomes 6. Quality and standards

8. Scope All provisions bearing credit Linkages between research and curriculum development Student support services All students Assurance and enhancement Annual monitoring Mobility of learning journey

9. Student Feedback

10. Its workings

11. Stages of the review Preparation Timetable Documentation (self-reflective report) Review team meeting Review meetings Staff Students Conclusions Meeting Writing up

12. How will the review be conducted? 1 day  3 to 4 days Bulk: review meetings How long Management and teaching staff Students Support services staff Who ALL provisions ALL students Non learning and teaching dimensions What

13. Variation in leadership and responsibility Follow-up Session with students Meetings Role of the student member Student Learning Experience Supervision and support from the chair of the team

14. Questions and answers?

15. Analysis and Interpretation

16. Types of documentation Outline programme List of panel membership Briefing document for the review Institutional background information Previous review reports Self-evaluation document Programme specifications Module descriptors Other background information

17. Self-evaluation document Skim and scan reading → Get the gist → Obtain specific information SQ3R method KWL method  Refer your reading to the student learning experience

18. Self-evaluation document  What is the structure of the document?  How are you going to prioritise the sections?  How would you assess your current knowledge on the different sections?  What questions have you got at this stage?

19. Lunch

20. Effective communication

21. Effective listening

22. Effective questioning

23. The A,B,C,D of Effective feedback Effective

24. Facilitation

25. Practice communication Examine the data and formulate questions according to principles of effective communication

26. Break

27. Planning your ISR

28. Learning Outcomes By the end of today you should have: Developed your understanding of the nature, purpose and process of Internal Subject Reviews Familiarised yourself with the self-evaluation document Developed an understanding of the skills required in undertaking reviews and how to develop these skills

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