Student motivations, perceptions and opinions of participating in student evaluation of teaching surveys: a scoping review

Daniel  Sullivan; Richard Lakeman; Debbie Massey; Dima Nasrawi; Marion Tower; Megan Lee

doi:10.1080/02602938.2023.2199486

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Student motivations, perceptions and opinions of participating in student evaluation of teaching surveys: a scoping review

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Student motivations, perceptions and opinions of participating in student evaluation of teaching surveys: a scoping review

Daniel Sullivan, Richard Lakeman, Debbie Massey, Dima Nasrawi, Marion Tower and Megan Lee

08/04/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2199486

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Student evaluation of teaching

student feedback surveys

academic

higher education

Several times each year the teaching performance of academics at higher education institutions are evaluated through anonymous, online student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys. Universities use SETs to inform decisions about staff promotion and tenure, but low student participation levels make the surveys impractical for this use. This scoping review aims to explore student motivations, perceptions and opinions of SET survey completion. Five EBSCO® databases were searched using key words. Thematic analysis of a meta-synthesis of qualitative findings derived from 21 papers identified five themes: (i) the value students’ place on SET, (ii) the knowledge that SET responses are acted upon to improve teaching, (iii) assurance of survey confidentiality and anonymity, (iv) incentives for completing SET, and (v) survey design and timing of survey release. Perceptions, knowledge and attitudes about the value of SET are essential factors in motivating students to engage and complete SETs, particularly if surveys are easy to interpret, time for completion is incentivised and responses are valued.

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Title: Student motivations, perceptions and opinions of participating in student evaluation of teaching surveys: a scoping review
Creators: Daniel Sullivan - Southern Cross University
Richard Lakeman - Southern Cross University
Debbie Massey - Edith Cowan University
Dima Nasrawi - Southern Cross University
Marion Tower - Griffith University
Megan Lee - Bond University
Publisher: Routledge
Identifiers: 991013102113702368
Copyright: © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Informa UK limited. This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: Original Research - SoLT

Student motivations, perceptions and opinions of participating in student evaluation of teaching surveys: a scoping review

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