PTES 2014 Webinar
PTES 2014 Webinar. This webinar. Marketing materials discussion Update on PTES so far How is it going for you? Sharing what works (and what didn’t!). Marketing materials. www.heacademy.ac.uk/ptes. Dweud eich Dweud.
PTES 2014 Webinar
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PTES 2014 Webinar
This webinar • Marketing materials discussion • Update on PTES so far • How is it going for you? • Sharing what works (and what didn’t!)
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Marketing materials • Discussion • Are the marketing materials meeting your needs? • How do they fit in with other surveys? • What else would you want to see?
Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2014 • At least 100 institutions taking part • (89 took part in 2013) • Earliest launch date: 3 February • Latest launch date: 30 April • Live benchmarking: mid May • Last possible close date: 19 June • Benchmarking stable: 20 June • Benchmarking reports: mid July
Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey Revised • PTES has been significantly revised for 2014 after research and sector-wide consultation; • Analysis of previous PTES results to explore how well scales were working; • Consultation on topics to be included in new survey; • Interviews with 77 taught postgraduates, representing a broad range of students, from across 11 Universities; • Final recommendations discussed by the PTES advisory group.
How is it going for you? • Discussion • How is the administration of PTES going so far? • What have the main challenges been? • What has worked well?
Raising Response Rates
Three rules for getting good response rates Personalise emails and make them informal; Publicise what you have done in response to student feedback; Use a hyperlink that passes the student to the survey directly from the email. 3½. Send lots of emails… or have good contact with the students
Getting PTES up and running
Institutional questions • Why add bespoke questions? • Get feedback on issues specific to your institution • Drill-down into areas of concern identified in PTES 2013 • Get feedback on recent enhancements and initiatives • Continue monitoring trends for questions no longer in PTES • Engage staff and students’ union in the design of the survey
Institutional questions • However: • Bespoke questions are not benchmarkable • They will add to the survey completion time • They will add to the work involved in analysis and reporting • Ideally, questions should be tested prior to inclusion
Institutional questions • Possible areas for consideration: • Application process • Teaching consistency and workload • Specific learning resources provided at your institution • Student support services • Employer engagement • Expectations • Importance of aspects of provision • Would you recommend this course/institution to a friend?
Benchmarking for 2014 • Benchmarked data available via BOS from mid-May; • Comparison to pre-set benchmarking groups; • Basic tables of results; • Standard Benchmarking Reports via HEA from mid-July; • Detailed by subject statistical analyses; • Include custom benchmarking groups for additional cost.