Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development : Principles and Practice (Hardcover)

1. Evaluating the effectiveness of academic development: an overview, Lorraine Stefani

2. Locating Academic Development: the first step in evaluation, Shelda Debowski

3. The Quality Agenda: where does academic development sit? George Gordon

4. Demonstrating Fitness for Purpose: phronesis and authenticity as overarching purposes, Carolin Kreber

5. Using Student Survey Data to Shape Priorities and Approaches, Kerri-Lee Krause

6. Innovation and Change: responding to a digital environment, Cathy Gunn

Case Study 1. Whaia te pae tawhiti: M?ori Academic Development at the University of Auckland, Matiu Ratima

Case Study 2. Academic Partnership: peer mentoring with early-career academics, Barbara Kensington-Miller

Case Study 3. Tending the Secret Garden: evaluating a doctoral skills program, Frances Kelly, Ian Brailsford and Susan Carter

Case Study 4. Evaluation as Bricolage: cobbling together a strategy for appraising supervision development, Barbara Grant

Case Study 5. Archiving for the Future: a longitudinal approach to evaluating a postgraduate certificate program, Helen Sword

Case Study 6. Tracking the Invisible: an elearning group’s approach to evaluation, Cathy Gunn and Claire Donald

Case Study 7. Continuous Improvement Projects: whose evaluation matters? Lorraine Stefani

Case Study 8. Leadership Programs: evaluation as a way forward, Linda McLain

7. Accrediation, Accountability and Assessment: addressing multiple agendas, Claudia Stanny and Jane Halonen

8. An Institutional Program: a national model for evaluation? Roni Bamber

9. Evaluation matters in a national, funded academic development project, Kogi Nadoo and Alison Holmes

10. Impact Evaluation and its Implications, Kathleen Gray and Alex Radloff

Endnote, Lorraine Stefani