Internal briefing for Academic Reps The National Student Survey 2017 A new National Student Survey (NSS) will launch at the University of Bath during w/c Monday 6 February 2017. The NSS is a survey of mostly final year undergraduates in England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The annual survey gathers the opinions of students about their experiences on their course. It asks 27 core questions on a range of issues including the quality of teaching, learning opportunities, assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, learning community and student voice. The NSS provides a powerful resource for informing institutions on how to enhance the student learning experience. For Academic Reps, the NSS provides valuable information on that have studied on your course. In order for the results to be made public, each institution and subject needs at least 10 students and 50% of eligible students to have responded. The higher the response rate, the better! Student and Academic Reps can make a real difference to response rates by raising awareness of the survey and the impact it can have, and by targeting their promotion of the survey in areas most likely to attract students, e.g. on the Parade, in your department or on social media sites. In order to ensure that the University of Bath achieves the required response rates for publication of their data, we are writing to ask for your support to help us to promote the survey to your peers. Tips for promoting the survey include: Contacting on your course informing them of what the NSS is, and why it is important to complete; Creating an exciting promotional campaign which will grab people’s attention;
Internal briefing for Academic Reps The National Student Survey 2017 A new National Student Survey (NSS) will launch at the University of Bath during w/c Monday 6 February 2017. The NSS is a survey of mostly final year undergraduates in England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The annual survey gathers the opinions of students about their experiences on their course. It asks 27 core questions on a range of issues including the quality of teaching, learning opportunities, assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, learning community and student voice. The NSS provides a powerful resource for informing institutions on how to enhance the student learning experience. For Academic Reps, the NSS provides valuable information on that have studied on your course. In order for the results to be made public, each institution and subject needs at least 10 students and 50% of eligible students to have responded. The higher the response rate, the better! Student and Academic Reps can make a real difference to response rates by raising awareness of the survey and the impact it can have, and by targeting their promotion of the survey in areas most likely to attract students, e.g. on the Parade, in your department or on social media sites. In order to ensure that the University of Bath achieves the required response rates for publication of their data, we are writing to ask for your support to help us to promote the survey to your peers. Tips for promoting the survey include: Contacting on your course informing them of what the NSS is, and why it is important to complete; Creating an exciting promotional campaign which will grab people’s attention;
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