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Student Feedback

Student feedback is an effective tool to commence evaluation processes. It can be obtained in many different ways such as representation on committees, the Students Union, student class representatives, student surveys and casual, informal discussion.

The College has adopted a policy on the evaluation of the student experience incorporating the use of student feedback and consultation which is available to download here

NCAD has established annual surveys to gather feedback from students.  These are issued through the Quality Office and targeted to specific programmes and to the individual student experience:

1. The End-of-year Student Survey is issued to the undergraduate cohort and all postgraduate taught programmes.  Results of this survey are filtered by course and year and the resulting report(s) sent from the Quality Office directly to the Head of the Programme (Department), Head of Faculty, Head of Academic Affairs, the College Secretary and the Director.  The Head of Department should ensure that all staff relevant to the programme receives a copy of the report(s).

2. The Research Student Survey is sent to all postgraduate research students to assess their research experience.  Results of this survey are filtered by Faculty and the resulting report(s) sent from the Quality Office to the Head of Faculty, Head of Academic Affairs, the College Secretary and the Director.

3. The Exit Survey was conducted annually from 2006 to 2015 to final year undergraduate students.  The Exit survey concentrated on the overall student experience of NCAD including student supports.   It provided valuable summative data from outgoing students on their student experience and a substantial body of information is available from these surveys..  Results of this survey were filtered by Faculty and the resulting report(s) sent from the Quality Office to the Head of Faculty, Head of Academic Affairs, the College Secretary and the Director.  A summary report was written each summer comparing results over a number of years.  This survey has now been superseded by the national Irish Survey of Student Engagment which is conducted in February/March of each year.

The aim of the three surveys is to enable quantative and evidential feedback from students to indicate any areas within NCAD teaching and learning cycles that require further examination.