ERIC Number: EJ1362692
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jan
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-5224
EISSN: EISSN-1468-2273
A Comparison of Three Major Instruments Used for the Assessment of University Student Experience: Toward a Comprehensive and Distributed Approach
Zeng, Lily Min; Fryer, Luke K.; Zhao, Yue
Higher Education Quarterly, v77 n1 p27-44 Jan 2023
Higher education's rapid expansion is paired with growing social expectations of its benefits and concern on its teaching quality. In response to these, institutional/national surveys based on an array of theories are widely used in universities for quality assurance, enhancement, and benchmarking. This paper reviews three major types of instruments used for such purposes, including two distinct schools of theory that have guided the development of such assessment in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom and then spread to the other parts of the world. The theories shaping the development of the two instruments, the dimensions assessed, and the challenges and criticisms involved when using such instruments for quality assurance are each discussed. This review concludes with a call for comparisons of different lines of research in this area, discussions on student learning experience that include more diverse characterizations of student experience across different educational contexts, development of tools to enable distributed leadership among teachers, and encouragement of students as partners for quality enhancement in higher education.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Surveys, Student Experience, College Students, Research Needs, Benchmarking, Educational Quality, Theories
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States; Australia; United Kingdom
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