Benchmarking Report – Assessment of Teaching and Learning Quality

According to the aim planned for Work Package 2, Task 2.3.1, concerning the benchmark of
University partners of UNITA Alliance (hereinafter referred as “partners”) on “National
practices of Quality Assurance (QA) of Teaching and Learning (T&L), with particular focus on
Students’ evaluation of T&L” all activities have been implemented according to the following
steps:
- collection by UNITO (WP 2.3 working group) of QA documents from partners
- analysis of documents by UNITO
- formulation of ad hoc questions to be discussed with partners
- question time: online meeting with each partner
- summary of the data
- drafting of the benchmarking report by UNITO
The Benchmarking Report includes the main references to European Standards and Guidelines
(ESG 2015) for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, with particular emphasis on Teaching and
Learning, and an insight on students’ and teachers’ surveys on Teaching and Learning quality.
The latter can be considered as propaedeutic for the implementation of Task 2.3.2 actions,
namely to set questionnaires for students’ and teachers evaluation of teaching and learning
within the UNITA framework.
The Annexes to the present Report summarize the main benchmarking data, collected within
partners, concerning QA principles, processes and actors, and students’ and teachers’ surveys.
The present draft (1.0) will be shared among partners to allow correction and/or integration.
Updated versions of the document will be shared among partners.