Using quality enhancement processes to achieve sustainable development and support for sessional staff

Consistent with quality enhancement, we report on how we used a continuous improvement cycle to formalise and embed an academic development and support programme for our School's sessional staff. Key factors in establishing and maintaining the programme included: local change agents supported i...

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Published in:The international journal for academic development 2017-01, Vol.22 (1), p.70-83
Main Authors: Lekkas, D., Winning, T. A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Information
Adjunct Faculty
Administrator Role
Benchmarking
Change Agents
Clinical supervision
Data Analysis
Educational Development
Educational Improvement
Educational Quality
embedding good practice
Faculty Development
Foreign Countries
integration of sessional staff
Likert Scales
National Standards
Part Time Faculty
school/department level support
teacher preparation
Teacher Surveys
Temporary Employment
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Summary:Consistent with quality enhancement, we report on how we used a continuous improvement cycle to formalise and embed an academic development and support programme for our School's sessional staff. Key factors in establishing and maintaining the programme included: local change agents supported initially by institutional project funding; School support for key academic and administrative roles; timely access to reports and tools from nationally-funded projects and sessional staff input. Reviewing our approach against national standards highlighted ongoing actions while collaboration with academic developers is critical for advancing our understanding and reviewing our approaches in our continuously changing context.
ISSN:1360-144X
1470-1324
DOI:10.1080/1360144X.2016.1261357