Performance cultures of teaching

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Performance cultures of teaching

• Judyth Sachs
• Macquarie University

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Some views?

• Who wants to change, things are bad enough as
  they are
• Lord Salisbury
• Anyone who isnt confused doesnt understand
  the situation
• Edward R Morrow
• Even if you are on the right track, youll get
  run over if you just sit there
• Will Rogers

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Management or monitoring

• Performance management
• Individual effort and institutional outcome
• Accountability and transparency
• Processes of evaluation and assessment
• Improvement and development
• Recognising and rewarding effort
• Performance monitoring
• Reporting to internal and external stakeholders
• Compliance with Strategic and operational plans
• Accountability and transparency

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Performance cultures external to the University

• Australian Quality Framework
• Learning and Teaching Performance Fund
• RQF
• AUQA
• Standards regimes
• Professional accreditation

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Performance cultures within the University

• Performance management and development
• Peer review
• Appointment, confirmation and promotion practices
• AWAs and KPIs for executives

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If PM is this is the answer, what are the
questions?

• How do we know how well we are doing?
• What are we measuring?
• What techniques/strategies do we use?
• What do we do with that information?
• What do we need to support L and T?
• What differentiates our students?

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How well do we know we are doing?

• Teaching Performance Fund
• External recognition through Carrick Awards and
  other awards
• External reporting requirements
• CEQ
• SCEQ
• SREQ
• PREQ
• Graduate Destinations Survey
• Internal initiatives
• Academic Reviews
• Unit of study evaluations
• Professional accreditation

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What evidence do we need to support L T?

• Quantitative and qualitative data from CEQ, SCEQ
  etc
• Limited sample size
• Survey fatigue
• Use of focus group interviews in some Faculties
  and Departments
• Scholarship of teaching
• Peer review
• Social bias
• Intellectual bias
• Random error

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What are we measuring?

• Performance what does this mean?
• Student learning outcomes and teaching
  effectiveness
• Retention, progression, completion rates
• Employment and post graduate destinations
• Student experience/satisfaction
• Quality of student learning?
• learning environments
• e Learning provision and support and
• value adding to learning landscape
• Student engagement?
• What else should we measure?

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KPIs for teaching - promotion

• Performance
• Planning, design, clear goals, effective
  presentation, instructional technique and on-line
  learning, appropriate assessment and feedback and
  evidence of appropriate use of student
  evaluations
• Leadership in teaching
• The coordination and management of teaching teams
  and courses, curriculum and policy development
  and oversight, mentoring of junior staff,
  external recognition of teaching expertise,
  including benchmarking of teaching quality with
  other universities and agencies

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KPIs continued

• Research enhanced teaching
• Encouraging imaginative student inquiry, sharing
  insights from research and scholarship with
  students and the use of primary sources and
  recent discoveries as part of teaching
• Scholarship in teaching
• systematic use of the best available evidence ,
  including research, to select and use in teaching
  and assessment strategies. In some cases it may
  extend to original research in teaching methods

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KPIs continued

• Student focussed teaching
• Teaching that places emphasis on students
  perceptions and experiences, and on the relation
  between students and subject matter as well as a
  teachers performance

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Recognising quality teaching and learning

• Recognizing refers to theindicators, data sets,
  criteria, policies, systems and documents that
  describe and ascribe value to some information
  and qualities related to L and T over others

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Rewarding quality teaching and learning

• Refers to benefits (or penalities) directly
  attributed to individuals or institutions based
  on some assessment of T and L quality
• Appointment, promotion, awards, study leave,
  teaching grants at the individual level

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Teaching Indicators

• Teachers
• Institution Individual
• Teaching

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Recognising and rewarding quality teaching and
learning

• National systems
• LTPF indicators (outputs)
• Institutions
• (teaching)
• HR, Promotion criteria, T and L policies, awards
  criteria, review, institutional data, strategic
  and operational planning

• Carrick, LPTF
• Salary loadings
• Promotion
• Operational budget allocation
• Quality fund allocation
• Scholarships,
• awards

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Recognising Rewarding

• Individuals
• (teachers)
• Academic portfolio
• Student feedback, surveys
• SoTL
• Student learning

• Promotion
• Awards
• Grants
• publications

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What differentiates our students

• Graduate generic attributes
• Personal and intellectual autonomy
• Research and inquiry
• Ethical, social and professional understanding
• Communication
• Information literacy
• Research intensive environment
• Internal experiences
• Rigorous curriculum
• The University experience cultural, social and
  educational activities

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The Carrick Project

• Development of a framework based on evidence from
  the literature, policy and current practice
• Provide a systematic way to collect evidence and
  ascertain the extent to which it is aligned with
  institutional goals
• Assist with future planning and development

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Discussion and Questions