Enhancing Learning And Teaching Through Student Feedback In Social Sciences

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap in their first book Student Feedback: The cornerstone to an effective quality assurance system in higher education.

In recent years, student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. This is an edited book with contributions by experts in higher education quality and particularly student feedback in social science disciplines from a range of countries, such as Australia, Europe, Canada, the USA, the UK and India.

This book is concerned with the practices of evaluation and higher education quality in social science disciplines, with particular focus on student feedback. * The first book of its kind on student feedback specific to social sciences and will be a scholarly resource for all stakeholders to enhance learning/teaching through student feedback* Will interrogate student feedback in social science disciplines, on the basis of establishing a better understanding of its forms, purposes and effectiveness in learning* Contributions come from experienced academics, experts and practitioners in the area Review: Offering examples from around the world, in face-to-face as well as online learning, they demonstrate that student feedback is essential in improving learning outcomes in the social sciences, especially in areas such as communication and problem solving.

They give practical guidelines on the design of evaluation within social science disciplines such as education, sociology, psychology, and economics. --ProtoView.com, February 2014 This book was an interesting read and gave me a solid overview of both the theoretical background of the subject (and its purpose) as well as examples of international best practice.

This would make a useful book for anyone working directly in student feedback settings and would enable them to appreciate both the why of feedback as well as giving clear suggestions on improving the how . --Managing Information