Written for academic developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development shares best practice advice and frameworks for evaluation and monitoring.
Table of Contents:
1. Evaluating the effectiveness of academic development: an overview, Lorraine Stefani
2. Locating Academic Development: the first step in evaluation, Shelda Debowski
3. The Quality Agenda: where does academic development sit? George Gordon
4. Demonstrating Fitness for Purpose: phronesis and authenticity as overarching purposes, Carolin Kreber
5. Using Student Survey Data to Shape Priorities and Approaches, Kerri-Lee Krause
6. Innovation and Change: responding to a digital environment, Cathy Gunn
Case Study 1. Whaia te pae tawhiti: Māori Academic Development at the University of Auckland, Matiu Ratima
Case Study 2. Academic Partnership: peer mentoring with early-career academics, Barbara Kensington-Miller
Case Study 3. Tending the Secret Garden: evaluating a doctoral skills program, Frances Kelly, Ian Brailsford and Susan Carter
Case Study 4. Evaluation as Bricolage: cobbling together a strategy for appraising supervision development, Barbara Grant
Case Study 5. Archiving for the Future: a longitudinal approach to evaluating a postgraduate certificate program, Helen Sword
Case Study 6. Tracking the Invisible: an elearning group’s approach to evaluation, Cathy Gunn and Claire Donald
Case Study 7. Continuous Improvement Projects: whose evaluation matters? Lorraine Stefani
Case Study 8. Leadership Programs: evaluation as a way forward, Linda McLain
7. Accrediation, Accountability and Assessment: addressing multiple agendas, Claudia Stanny and Jane Halonen
8. An Institutional Program: a national model for evaluation? Roni Bamber
9. Evaluation matters in a national, funded academic development project, Kogi Nadoo and Alison Holmes
10. Impact Evaluation and its Implications, Kathleen Gray and Alex Radloff
Endnote, Lorraine Stefani
About the Author :
University of Auckland, New Zealand
