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SETL is the University of Tasmania’s Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning program which was introduced in 1993. SETL is a system for feedback from students to academic teaching staff to help in the formulation and development of unit organisation and teaching . This program serves as the main systematic way for students to tell the University what they think of units they study and the teaching they receive.
SETL offers academic staff customised evaluations of their teaching and of the unit as a whole. Evaluations are based on a short undergraduate unit, honours course, postgraduate (coursework) course and personal teaching questionnaires which all include ‘standard’ and ‘optional’ sections for questions. All questionnaires invite open-ended comments from students. Having a combination of ‘standard’ and ‘optional’ questions allows for customisation while at the same time ensuring a degree of comparability between all evaluations across the University. ‘Optional’ questions are drawn from a bank of questions which are moderated in terms of language used and structure to assure an appropriate standard.
The SETL program is administered centrally where all questionnaires are analysed and results reported by staff in Student Administration opposed to staff in the school offering the unit or course.
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