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The Good Teaching Scale (GTS)

There is a body of research linking practices such as providing students with feedback on their progress, explaining things, making the course interesting, motivating students, and understanding students' problems with the learning outcomes of students.

Questions in the CEQ that combine to provide performance on the Good Teaching Scale are:

3. The teaching staff of this course motivated me to do my best

7. The staff put a lot of time into commenting on my work

15. The staff made a real effort to understand difficulties I might be having with my work

17. The teaching staff normally gave me helpful feedback on how I was going

18. My lecturers were extremely good at explaining things

20. The teaching staff worked hard to make their subjects interesting

The table below provides performance in the Good Teaching Scale by Department:

	2005			2006
	Number of respondents	Number satisfied	Percent satisfied (%)	Number of respondents	Number satisfied	Percent satisfied (%)
Sci, Comp, Eng, Arch, Agric
Statistics	10	3	30.00	13	5	38.46
Biological Sciences	38	21	55.26	53	34	64.15
Grad School of the Environ	25	13	52.00	13	7	53.85
Chem & Biomolecular Sci	*	*	*	11	9	81.82
Physical Geography	*	*	*	*	*	*
Earth & Planetary Sciences	17	12	70.59	26	21	80.77
Animal Behaviour (CISAB)	-	-	-	*	*	*
Computing	60	17	28.33	65	14	21.54
Electronics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Mathematics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Physics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total broad group	172	79	45.93	198	103	52.02
Bus, Law, Econ
Accounting and Finance	191	57	29.84	369	118	31.98
Actuarial Studies	26	12	46.15	42	15	35.71
Business	70	23	32.86	116	35	30.17
Economics	24	9	37.50	29	15	51.72
Business Law	-	-	-	*	*	*
Law	102	29	28.43	79	24	30.38
Media	-	-	-	*	*	*
Total broad group	413	130	31.48	645	211	32.71
Hum, Arts, Edu
Business	-	-	-	*	*	*
School of Education	74	50	67.57	58	34	58.62
Institute of Early Childhood	33	21	63.64	58	32	55.17
Ancient History	-	-	-	*	*	*
Asian Languages	*	*	*	11	4	36.36
English	23	19	82.61	41	23	56.10
European Languages	*	*	*	*	*	*
Modern History	23	18	78.26	56	45	80.36
Contemporary Music Studies	*	*	*	12	8	66.67
Politics & Internat Relations	13	9	69.23	25	10	40.00
Anthropology	13	9	69.23	*	*	*
Cultural Studies	*	*	*	17	10	58.82
Media	59	20	33.90	96	46	47.92
Philosophy	*	*	*	*	*	*
Sociology	28	23	82.14	16	14	87.50
Warawara,Dept of Indigenous St	*	*	*	-	-	-
Human Geography	*	*	*	*	*	*
Linguistics	19	14	73.68	*	*	*
Psychology	76	39	51.32	127	59	46.46
Total broad group	400	248	62.00	554	311	56.14
Health
Biological Sciences	-	-	-	*	*	*
Health & Chiropractic	11	4	36.36	20	12	60.00
Linguistics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Electronics	-	-	-	*	*	*
Total broad group	20	10	50.00	25	15	60.00
All disciplines
Accounting and Finance	191	57	29.84	369	118	31.98
Actuarial Studies	26	12	46.15	42	15	35.71
Business	70	23	32.86	118	36	30.51
Economics	24	9	37.50	29	15	51.72
Statistics	10	3	30.00	13	5	38.46
School of Education	74	50	67.57	58	34	58.62
Institute of Early Childhood	33	21	63.64	58	32	55.17
Ancient History	-	-	-	*	*	*
Asian Languages	*	*	*	11	4	36.36
English	23	19	82.61	41	23	56.10
European Languages	*	*	*	*	*	*
Modern History	23	18	78.26	56	45	80.36
Contemporary Music Studies	*	*	*	12	8	66.67
Politics & Internat Relations	13	9	69.23	25	10	40.00
Business Law	-	-	-	*	*	*
Law	102	29	28.43	79	24	30.38
Anthropology	13	9	69.23	*	*	*
Cultural Studies	*	*	*	17	10	58.82
Media	59	20	33.90	98	47	47.96
Philosophy	*	*	*	*	*	*
Sociology	28	23	82.14	16	14	87.50
Warawara,Dept of Indig St	*	*	*	-	-	-
Biological Sciences	38	21	55.26	54	34	62.96
Grad School of the Environ	25	13	52.00	13	7	53.85
Chem & Biomolecular Sci	*	*	*	11	9	81.82
Health & Chiropractic	11	4	36.36	20	12	60.00
Human Geography	*	*	*	*	*	*
Physical Geography	*	*	*	*	*	*
Earth & Planetary Sciences	17	12	70.59	26	21	80.77
Linguistics	28	20	71.43	10	7	70.00
Psychology	76	39	51.32	127	59	46.46
Animal Behaviour (CISAB)	-	-	-	*	*	*
Computing	60	17	28.33	65	14	21.54
Electronics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Mathematics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Physics	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total broad group	1005	467	46.47	1422	640	45.01
A dash (-) means no response. A star (*) means less than 10 responses and the cell is suppressed.

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