Status
Internal assessment of SFIVET's basic training modules has been an ongoing process since 2005:
- 2005: initial concept phase
- 2006: pilot phase I (German-speaking region of Switzerland)
- 2007: pilot phase II (nationwide), second concept stage
- Autumn semester of 2007: full-scale implementation
Project manager
Dr. Lars Balzer
Team:
Tanja P. Schnoz-Schmied
Partner institutions
This is an internal SFIVET project. Our internal partners come from various organisational units within SFIVET's Basic Training Division in all three linguistic regions.
Project description
SFIVET's Internal Assessment Unit has an explicit mandate to help SFIVET's Basic Training Division at all three regional campuses in their efforts to provide adequate and sufficiently high-quality basic training courses.
The following objectives are pursued:
- Generate data-supported knowledge that may be used by the persons responsible for ensuring the quality of SFIVET's basic training modules;
- Gather feedback from course participants on quality-related aspects;
- Convey course participant feedback on quality-related aspects (e.g. strengths and weaknesses) to the persons responsible for managing or teaching basic training modules;
- Assess data and keep a record of feedback and suggestions for the purpose of developing and improving basic training courses;
- Generate data-supported knowledge that may be used to manage the quality of basic training modules.
Method
Since 2007, online questionnaires have been used to assess the quality of teaching for each basic training module taught at SFIVET's three regional campuses. Students are asked to fill out an online questionnaire at the start of the basic training module and another online questionnaire at the end of that module. These two questionnaires are designed to gather quantitative data. The entire process takes place over the Internet.
Students and teachers also receive feedback in real time over the Internet: students can use this information to track their own progress over the course of the module (personalised feedback); teachers can use this information to measure the cohort's progress and status (implementation-related feedback).
Persons responsible for basic training modules, managers at SFIVET's regional campuses as well as managers responsible for SFIVET activities nationwide can use aggregated results to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each basic training module as well as the overall quality of training provided by SFIVET (basic training and region-specific feedback).
Contact person
Tanja P. Schnoz-Schmied