SETs and SMEs – what’s that?
Posted on December 8th, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Now is the time of the year when lecturers will distribute in class questionnaires with cryptic names such as SET or SME… Student Evaluation of Teaching and Student Module Evaluation. Two dozens of questions to tick and lots of space on the back to write something…What are these forms and what are they for? SET and SME have been conceived at the University of Nottingham to formalize student feedback on modules and they have been standardized to make them comparable across the years and the schools. The first set of questions on the SET are the same all over the university, the second section has been set by the schools or divisions. Fine. But why were they developed? Read the rest of this entry »