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Chapter 1: Context for the Irish Survey for PGR Student Engagement
PGR StudentSurvey.ie objectives
- To increase transparency in relation to the student experience of, and engagement with, higher education.
- To enable direct student input in expressing their experience and engagement with their higher education institution.
- To facilitate higher education institutions’ efforts to reflect that engagement and those experiences in their policy and practice in an impactful way.
- To help institutions identify areas of strength in how students engage, so that they can continue and strengthen these practices.
- To help institutions identify areas requiring further development or improvement in how students engage so they can respond.
- To serve as a guide for continual enhancement of institutions’ teaching and learning and student engagement.
- To facilitate comparison with other higher education systems nationally, sectorally and internationally.
The survey is comprehensive and seeks to explore many different aspects of the PGR student experience of higher education. There is greater variation in results within institutions than between institutions.
The greatest benefit is realised when those exploring the data, both students and staff, have a deep understanding of the local context. Prioritisation of specific uses of the data is a decision for individual institutions to make.
Higher education institutions have multiple sources of data about their students. The PGR StudentSurvey.ie dataset is a valuable component of these sources, which are used in varying and increasingly sophisticated ways to identify good practice and plan for enhancement.
The capacity to analyse and interpret PGR StudentSurvey.ie data in a timely manner remains variable between institutions.
