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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes Actions can be taken immediately Lack of opportunity for
or relatively quickly representatives to communicate
with the student population
Provides personal development Time taken to ensure that
opportunities for students representatives are effectively
trained in the necessary skills

Discussion groups Useful for engaging students in May be resource intensive (in terms
dialogue and highlighting of student /staff time, analysis and
issues of concern interpretation of results)
Can provide a rich source of The student group may not be
information representative of the student
population
Good opportunities for dialogue May be intimidating for some
and testing out ideas students
Enables exploration of an issue Vocal students may dominate
(s) in depth discussion
Facilitator can be neutral Compromises student anonymity
and confidentiality
Requires specialist input to secure
effective facilitation and discussion
Lecture/seminar Can find out immediately how May be intimidating for some
things are going students
(Some) problems can be dealt Vocal students may dominate
with immediately discussion
Compromises student anonymity
and confidentiality
Tutorial Useful for more personal Anecdotal - does not provide hard
exchanges of views on data
the student’s experience
Can find out immediately how Resource intensive
things are going
(Some) problems can be dealt
with immediately
Sensitive issues can be discussed
confidentially

Informal Useful for more personal Anecdotal
exchanges of views on the
student’s experience
Can find out immediately how
things are going
(Some) problems can be dealt
with immediately
Sensitive issues can be discussed
confidentially
Provides a means of on-going
informal dialogue between staff
and students

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