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Editorial: Enhancing Teaching Performance: Managing Student Feedback Exercises, Lily Kong
Editorial: Enhancing Teaching Performance: Managing Student Feedback Exercises, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
When I was an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the mid-1980s, student feedback exercises were introduced. They were manually conducted via pen-and-paper mode, with administrative staff taking about 10±15 minutes at the start of a lecture class every day in a designated week (usually the last or penultimate week of semester), distributing questionnaires and collecting the completed forms in boxes to have the responses scanned and totted up. This represented the ®rst time that a systematic data collection and feedback mechanism was instituted for students. Since then, various innovations have been introduced to manage student feedback …
Introduction: Are We Requiring What Our Students Most Need?, Michael Alan Netzley
Introduction: Are We Requiring What Our Students Most Need?, Michael Alan Netzley
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Why devote a special issue to the topic of writing requirements for business students?The answer, I believe, is relatively simple: any such requirement mustreflect what business professionals should know and do in a knowledge economy.Because communication practices are changing radically, our requirements, too,must be reexamined. This issue provides a forum for such reexamination.