Audits of 23 degree programmes in eight universities showed wide variations in assessment patterns and feedback. Scores from Assessment Experience Questionnaire returns revealed consistent relationships between characteristics of assessment and student learning responses, including a strong relationship between quantity and quality of feedback and…

There is considerable variation between male and female Bachelor degree performance at Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge) where male students attain more First and Third Class degrees and female students attain more Second Class degrees. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain this phenomenon including the possibility that the distinctive…

This article outlines a methodology for characterising features of programme-level assessment environments so that the relationship between features of the assessment environment and students' learning response can be studied. The methodology was developed through the detailed case study of nine undergraduate degree programmes: one in each of…

Developed and evaluated a measure of higher education teachers' repertoire of teaching methods, the Teaching Methods Inventory (TMI). Found that the TMI was not a useful indicator of repertoire (or that repertoire was not a very useful indicator of teaching quality) because of poor correlations with the Approaches to Teaching Inventory and the…

The Student Evaluation of Educational Quality Questionnaire (SEEQ) is one of the most thoroughly developed and widely used student feedback questionnaires in the United States with a robust factor structure, excellent reliability, and reasonable validity. This study examined use of the SEEQ with 1,297 students in nine institutions in the United…