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Evaluating taught postgraduate awards from the student’s perspective
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Kember, D and Ho, A and Leung, DYP, Evaluating taught postgraduate awards from the student's perspective, Further and Higher Education, Journal Of, 40, (2) pp. 147-169. ISSN 0309-877X (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/0309877X.2014.895304
Abstract
There is a need for a questionnaire designed specifically to evaluate
taught postgraduate (TPg) awards for quality assurance or enhancement
purposes. Comparison of undergraduate and TPg awards suggests that
as the former have broadened their ambit to better nurture generic graduate
attributes, TPg awards have concentrated on advanced specialised
knowledge and skills. Those enrolling in TPg programmes are often
mature part-time students working in a field associated with the subject
studied. A set of interviews with TPg students revealed that they had
clear expectations of the knowledge and skills they were expected to
acquire from their studies and were able to comment critically on curriculum
design. This made it clear that instruments designed for undergraduate
degrees would not be suitable. Therefore, a TPg questionnaire was
designed based on a model derived from a qualitative study, which
adopted a grounded theory approach to collect views from 21 part-time
TPg students from seven programmes offered by six institutions in
Hong Kong. The conceptual model underpinning the questionnaire
design was tested using structural equation modelling. As the results
showed a good fit to the data, the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed.
Use of the instrument in a routine quality assurance exercise
across a university revealed that results from the questionnaire were
highly diagnostic, so providing constructive feedback for curriculum
reform.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | taught postgraduate awards; taught postgraduate questionnaire; evaluation; quality enhancement; questionnaire development |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education systems |
| Research Field: | Higher education |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Learner and learning |
| Objective Field: | Learner and learning not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Kember, D (Professor David Kember) |
| ID Code: | 91931 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2014-06-03 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-20 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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