A reading pathway
Module evaluation and course review
How can a module survey lead to a useful teaching conversation?
A module evaluation sits within a course: students have encountered particular teaching activities, assessment instructions and resources at a particular point. Keep that context attached to both scores and comments. Early check-ins and end-of-module evaluations answer different questions.
A useful starting point
These readings help teams plan what happens after collection. Check the export, inspect the student words behind a theme and agree who will respond. Preserve strengths as well as concerns so that a review explains what to keep, clarify or change.
- Record the question, teaching period and collection stage.
- Distinguish a clarification that can happen now from a change needing programme approval.
- Schedule the response and tell students where to find it.
Read with a purpose
Selected reading, in a useful order.
Research briefings examine a particular study. Sector Watch articles describe developments and reported practice. The guides explain methods and working processes.
Sector Watch
King's module evaluation guidance sets deadlines for responding to student feedback
Start with a concrete institutional approach to check-ins, mid-module review and response deadlines.
Research Briefing
Stable teaching ratings can hide changing judgements
Explore why an unchanged evaluation average can conceal changing individual judgements.
Sector Watch
Jisc survey guidance connects student comments with decisions
Check the handover from survey responses to exported comments and named actions.
Connect the reading to your own work.
Choose one issue, identify the people who can act on it and agree how students will help interpret the evidence. Keep the original question and context with any comments you use.
- Explore the relevant public evidence or category framework
- Plan access, review and reporting arrangements
- Follow a comment through the worked example
If you need support analysing your institution’s comments, explore module evaluation analysis.