Student voice
Student voice
Integrating student voice in teaching empowers students, fostering a sense of belonging, and creating a more engaging and inclusive educational environment that supports the success and well-being of all learners.
Integrating student voice in teaching empowers students, fostering a sense of belonging, and creating a more engaging and inclusive educational environment that supports the success and well-being of all learners.
Student Voice is an all-encompassing term used to describe the multitude of ways in which student voices are heard by universities. It involves positioning students so they can make active and valuable contributions to decisions and actions that universities undertake. Student Voice is more than students being listened to or being heard. It involves their opinions and perspectives actually being acted upon in order to genuinely shape their learning and experiences at university.
Learn about what student voice is and the benefits of integrating student voice in teaching.
Learn strategies to incorporate student voice into teaching practice and assessing their progress in fair, flexible ways that promote personal and professional growth.
Learn about the importance of involving students in the curriculum design process and offer different ways to achieve this, including encouraging feedback and collaboration with students to co-design elements of the curriculum.
The following are some strategies that you can implement into your practice.
Example of Flexible Assessment for a Hybrid Model
Consider undertaking a MEA Module to improve your own feedback literacy.
Consider undertaking a MEA Module to improve your own feedback literacy
For guidance on strategies that encourage students to read feedback.
Monash has specific policies and procedures related to Learning and Teaching. Take the time to review these to inform your teaching practice.
This procedure sets out Monash’s requirements for supporting students in their studies and engaging them as partners in the learning process.
This procedure outlines the mechanisms by which Monash monitors and improves the quality of its learning and teaching in units and assures alignment with the Higher Education Standards Framework.
This policy aims to ensure a strategic and coordinated approach to quality assurance survey activities with students at Monash University
This policy aims to ensure a strategic and coordinated approach to quality assurance survey activities with students at Monash University.
Here are some relevant MEA modules available on Moodle that will help support you in implementing a student voice practice into your teaching.
Assessment feedback for learning offers participants the opportunity to undertake an in-depth look at the way(s) in which students are provided with feedback, and explores best practice as provided in the literature.
This module addresses issues around students' social comfort & provides effective teaching strategies which builds classroom community.
Here are some relevant technologies that will help support you in implementing a student voice practice into your teaching.
The Feedback activity in Moodle allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback from your students.
As an enterprise technology with collaborative functionality, students and educators can access a wide range of tools within Google Workspace to support learning.
An ePortfolio is a digital collection of student work. At Monash University, ePortfolios are utilised by certain faculties as a tool for student engagement, assessment, and professional development. The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Information Technology have examples.
Feedback Fruits software facilitates peer and self-assessment, providing an efficient way to give and receive feedback.
The Education Performance Standards identify the expectations of education practice at Monash – See the Education Performance Standards for more details.
Impact on student learning | Impact on educational knowledge | Impact on educational environment | |||||
Effective teaching and learning | Responsive program design | Student- centred orientation | Professional learning engagement | Pedagogical content knowledge | Education research performance | Education innovation | Education leadership |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
You could address these Practice Elements by providing evidence of how you: