Review of units policy

Policy statement

Every science unit owned by the Faculty of Science shall be formally reviewed on a five year cycle, following the faculty schedule and guidelines.

The formal review shall be much broader than an analysis of student feedback alone and requires the completion of a formal review report covering the following seven ‘key areas’ of the operation of the unit:

Content and objectives,
Teaching methods and materials,
Assessment procedures,
Student workload and study behaviour,
Evaluation mechanisms,
Expertise of all teaching staff, and
Where a unit is offered in more than one campus, the self-review should also include difference between campus offerings (if any), and mechanisms in place to ensure that the various campus offerings are equivalent.

The formal Unit Review Report should be prepared by a small panel of academic staff in the relevant school, based on information provided by the Unit Coordinator and the relevant data collected from various above.

Supporting information

Purpose and Rationale

According to Monash’s quality cycle, all courses must be reviewed every five years. Given the number of units offered towards the science courses, it would be impractical to review every science unit and its contribution to the relevant course at once. Hence individual units are best reviewed separately.

Scope

All units owned by the Faculty of Science.

Supporting procedure

Review of Units Procedure

Governing Documents

University Course Review Policy

Responsibilities for Implementation

Schools with teaching responsibility for the unit

Date Effective

2007

Approval

Revised Faculty Education Committee 07/07
Approved Faculty Board 05/07

Review

2010