Conference presentation
'Enhancing librarians' teaching practice through collaboration on evaluation strategies
ALIA Queensland Conference: Together we are more, 2015 (Brisbane, Australia, 10-Nov-2015)
2015
Abstract
Reframe: QUT’s Evaluation framework is the outcome of evidence-based research into the most effective methods of evaluating learning and teaching in higher education. A key component of Reframe is the Personal Evaluation Strategy, which encourages individual approaches to the collection and analysis of feedback to improve student learning. QUT Library has enacted the Personal Evaluation Strategy as a required aspect of Performance Planning and Review for librarians and other teaching staff. Combined with a series of workshops, this has normalised evaluation as a part of everyday practice, building cultural change in teams. The Personal Evaluation Strategy has formalised and increased already active reflection and evaluation among Liaison Librarians, Library Advisers and Academic Skills Advisers. Staff have been empowered to choose who they learn from and who they work with to observe and evaluate aspects of their teaching. The outcomes include a higher level of confidence and willingness to engage in new and different teaching activities.
Using Reframe also recognises that staff in academic libraries often have significant teaching responsibilities and occupy what has been called the ‘third space’ of universities in which professional and academic domains merge. Our teaching staff work with students and academics every day to enhance academic and information literacies and the Personal Evaluation Strategy builds a common discourse where the language of the university is shared by all. Access to the language, strategies and tools to measure learning enables us to reflect upon and reconceptualise the way we teach, and allows us to tell meaningful stories about the student experience. In this way, student learning outcomes become the primary measure by which we gauge the success of our teaching.
Details
- Title
- 'Enhancing librarians' teaching practice through collaboration on evaluation strategies
- Authors
- Helen Hobbs (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAlison Jaquet (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologySharron Stapleton (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Conference details
- ALIA Queensland Conference: Together we are more, 2015 (Brisbane, Australia, 10-Nov-2015)
- Date published
- 2015
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Student Services and Engagement
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513770602621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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