By KELLY CHENG CHIALI
SUBANG JAYA: Integrated Teaching and Life-Learning Centre at Taylor’s University (INTELLECT) has launched the Teaching Engagement Scale (TES) to assess the efficacy of lecturer-student engagement.
The assessment has replaced the previous course evaluation survey, which were conducted on a voluntary basis.
INTELLECT Director Assoc Prof Dr Tang Siew Fun said, “The biggest difference now is that students are required to take 10 minutes to fill up the TES during class hours.”
Tang added that this new approach is to combat the low level of student participation in course evaluation surveys.
Tang said she is confident the new system will receive at least 70% participation from the students.
“Only then will the findings of the survey be representative enough for us to interpret,” Tang said.
Tang said lecturers who received poor feedback will undergo internal and external trainings to improve on their teaching methodology.
She said, “TES creates a self-regulating ecosystem where lecturers are constantly mindful of their performances.
“Of course, this can only happen when students themselves play their roles in giving proper feedback,” she added.
School of Communication student Valerie Bong Li Hwa, 18, said, “This is a good initiative because I would not remember to do the survey unless being reminded to do so in class.”
TES is a system designed to cultivate professional development among lecturers based on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), a new feature to fill in the lackings of the previous course evaluation used.
For a well-balanced feedback system on part-time and full time lecturers, TES uses the assessment from four key stakeholders, which are self, students, peers and superiors.
The assessment has replaced the previous course evaluation survey, which were conducted on a voluntary basis.
INTELLECT Director Assoc Prof Dr Tang Siew Fun said, “The biggest difference now is that students are required to take 10 minutes to fill up the TES during class hours.”
Tang added that this new approach is to combat the low level of student participation in course evaluation surveys.
Tang said she is confident the new system will receive at least 70% participation from the students.
“Only then will the findings of the survey be representative enough for us to interpret,” Tang said.
Tang said lecturers who received poor feedback will undergo internal and external trainings to improve on their teaching methodology.
She said, “TES creates a self-regulating ecosystem where lecturers are constantly mindful of their performances.
“Of course, this can only happen when students themselves play their roles in giving proper feedback,” she added.
School of Communication student Valerie Bong Li Hwa, 18, said, “This is a good initiative because I would not remember to do the survey unless being reminded to do so in class.”
TES is a system designed to cultivate professional development among lecturers based on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), a new feature to fill in the lackings of the previous course evaluation used.
For a well-balanced feedback system on part-time and full time lecturers, TES uses the assessment from four key stakeholders, which are self, students, peers and superiors.