Unit Monitoring
Current Status: Reporting Period 2 2011 reports are now available as is a report that compares these outcomes with those for the same reporting period in 2010. The 2011 Annul Report will be available shortly.
Unit Monitoring Action Plan template
2011 Reports
- 2011 Annual Report - Coming Soon
- Comparison of Reporting Period 2 2011 and 2010 metrics
- Comparison of Reporting Period 1 2011 and 2010 metrics
- 2011 Reporting Periods 1 and 2 School (+ TLC and Oorala) Reports - follow quick links
2010 Reports
- 2010 Annual Report
- Comparison of Reporting Period 2 2009 and 2010 metrics
- Comparison of Reporting Period 1 2009 and 2010 metrics
- 2010 Reporting Period 1 and 2 School (+ TLC and Oorala) Reports - follow quick links
2009 Reports
- 2009 Annual Report
- Summary of Results and Improvements for Period 1, 2009
- A list of units that received commendations for Period 1, 2009
- 2009 Reporting Periods 1 and 2 School (+ TLC and Oorala) Reports - follow quick links
Unit Monitoring is a key component of the Academic Quality Management Policy which came into effect in 2007 to “...define and establish the University’s approach to management of the quality of its academic activities, to ensure systematic monitoring and improvement of its teaching and learning policies, procedures and activities. This policy applies to all academic activities of the University of New England and any associated teaching partnerships.” Unit Monitoring therefore sits within a broader context of quality assurance across the institution which extends to the monitoring and review of courses and formal School reviews.
Unit Monitoring is defined to be the collection of data about units, using key performance indicators, to analyse the student profile, demand, attrition, student feedback and assessment outcomes. Monitoring provides the opportunity to address the strengths and weaknesses of a unit through annual enhancement plans and University Commendations. There are two reporting periods per year, which roughly equate to Semester 1 and Semester 2. The generic timeline (displayed) indicates the reporting process and cycle. A quick Guide to Unit Monitoring has been developed to provide a resource to assist with reading the reports.
Regular reflection on unit data facilitates one of the key aims of monitoring, which is the identification of priorities for enhancement of the University’s academic activities. Through the Unit Monitoring process a range of measures (or metrics) have been brought together to assist unit coordinators, Heads of School and the senior executive to better understand the performance of the University’s units. These data provide decision-makers with information about the performance of the unit and provide a set of contextual information about the unit’s performance in a teaching period which is intended to assist with understanding and interpreting the performance measures.
This Action Plan template is to be used by Unit Coordinators in consultation with the Head of School to develop an Action Plan to improve the level of overall student satisfaction and the rate of attrition from the unit, with particular reference to and reflection upon the open ended comments provided by students in the Unit Evaluation.