In PolyU, all full time teaching
staff are required to collect feedback from students
on their teaching on a regular basis. The results
will be used for both developmental and judgmental
purposes. They constitute one of the evidences
of teaching quality of the staff member, and will
be used as an input to the discussion on the teaching
performance in the staff appraisal meetings.
In the past, a PolyU-wide standardised
Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ) form was used
for all teaching staff within the PolyU. However,
starting from the academic year 2000/1, individual
faculties will be responsible for developing their
own SFQ systems and instruments to collect feedback
from students on teaching. The purpose is to make
the student feedback system more flexible, and
relevant to the needs and contexts of staff from
different faculties or departments. It is hoped
that the move towards a faculty-based SFQ system
will promote the development of a sense of 'ownership'
among staff members regarding the SFQ system, and
improve the usefulness of the data collected, for
the purposes of evaluating and enhancing teaching.
To avoid replication of effort
and overloading students with evaluations, the Learning
and Teaching Committee (LTC), at the 11th Meeting
held on 21 June 2000, has further decided that:
