Teaching and Learning Evaluation

The University has recently adopted a multi-component teaching and learning evaluation mechanism by drawing on feedback from both students and staff to improve academic quality.

Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (TLQ)

For student feedback, a 10-question survey for every teaching assignment (every course taught) titled Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (TLQ) has been devised for implementation.

The TLQ has gone through several rounds of revisions by taking in comments of various stakeholders and research findings. Student focus groups have also been conducted to ensure the wording in the questionnaire is meaningful to students. The main features of the TLQ include:

1. Promote an outcome-based, discovery-enriched teaching and learning model; and confirm the use of English as the medium of instruction.
2. Use a 7-point scale to align it numerically with previous evaluation questionnaire scale.
3. Apply to all modes of learning, such as lectures, seminars, workshops, laboratories and tutorials, as the questions are generic and diagnostic.
4. Be administered for every teacher in every course/section.
5. Be formatted to be suitable for mobile devices by the end of 2012, which have been shown in pilot studies to boost response rates.

TLQ has been implemented starting from Semester B, 2011/12.

Please visit the TLQ website (http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/tlq) for more details.

Peer Review

Student feedback will be complemented by staff feedback through peer review and teaching portfolio, which will be operationalised by academic units under the guidance of the Quality Assurance Committee.

Please visit http://www.cityu.edu.hk/qac/peer_review.htm for more details.