SETC Improvement Project
Overview
What is the purpose of SFU’s Student Experience of Teaching and Courses (SETC) surveys? There is a lot of confusion about what the surveys can—and cannot—help us understand about student learning experiences. In Fall 2021, LEAP launched a project to:
- Re-examine the questions in the common core to ensure they are consistent with the purpose of understanding and improving the student learning experience
- Re-examine the utility of the cascading framework by engaging with Faculties and departments directly and, if we decide to keep the framework, ensure unit-level questions align with the purpose of the SETC program
- Engage explicitly with students about the purpose of the program to improve response rates and the tenor of responses, and consider other mechanisms to improve response rates
- Mount a communication/education campaign to help instructors, staff and students understand the purpose of the SETC system: to better understand—and to empower instructors, units and the university to improve—the student learning experience
Read the recommendations from the SETC Improvement Project down below:
Learn more about the SETC Improvement Project
REPORT 1: Psychometric Properties of the New Common Core Questions, Fall 2022
REPORT 2: Improving SETC Response Rates
REPORT 3: SETC Faculty Sex Bias Report, Spring 2022
REPORT 4: SETC Open Comment Report Final, Spring 2022
REPORT 5: Student Interview Analysis, Spring 2022
REPORT 6: SET Frameworks Across Canada, Fall 2021
REPORT 7: SETC Surveys: What Questions Are We Asking?, Fall 2021
REPORT 8: SETC: Who Is Not Responding to the Surveys?, Fall 2021