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.
Chericheri Sid Nair is Professor of Higher Education Development at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) at The University of Western Australia. His research work lies in the areas of quality in the Australian higher education system, classroom and school environments, and the implementation of improvements from stakeholder feedback.
Patricie Mertova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She has research expertise in a range of education settings, including the fields of higher education, higher education quality, sociology of education, adult education, educational development in law, and linguistics. Her current research focuses on the phenomenon of internationalization in higher education and its relation to higher education quality in the English, Australian and Czech higher education systems.