Teaching intensity: the key to measuring student learning?

A pilot planned for the subject-level teaching excellence framework has revived debate about the importance of small group teaching at university

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August 2, 2017
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August 2, 2017
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Size matters: studies show that students generally perform better in smaller groups – but teaching staff are concerned that this does not reflect the many different contexts in which learning takes place
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#1 Submitted by k.s.... on August 3, 2017 - 3:31pm
Please do not bring in more useless metrics like "teaching intensity". The bureaucrats are trying and succeeding to strangle Universities with more and more meaningless measurements. Enough is enough. Let us instead do another exercise to see how many useless overpaid, pro-VCs, managers and quality control freaks can be sacked from UK Universities and from HEFCE whilst simultaneously freeing up resources for frontline teaching to actually improve the "student experience" and pay the frontline staff more.

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