The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Grant

CALT will undertake a major research project during 2006-08 under the Carrick Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program. The grant was awarded for a project entitled: ‘Leadership for Implementing Improvements in the Learning and Teaching Quality Cycle’.

The purpose of the project is to enable Monash, through the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, in collaboration with the Centre for Higher Education Quality, to reflect upon, test, evaluate and share the learning of applying an Emerging Leadership Framework (ELF) to the issue of how best to assist faculties link data collection, reporting and analysis to actions for improvement.

The project will:

1. Reflect on, analyse and document issues around reporting, analysing, presenting and converting student performance and satisfaction data into improvements and flesh out and document the leadership drivers within various levels of the framework which impact on and explain the role and dimensions of leadership required in all phases of the process from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating through to improvement. This information will be used to inform the ELF which will be trialled in this study.
2. Trial the ELF by implementing it to assist faculties to convert knowledge of the data into actions designed to lead to improvements in student satisfaction and performance.
3. Evaluate and refine the ELF in light of the trials with various departments and faculties across the university.
4. Share the findings from the trials and case studies and implement a dissemination strategy to communicate the framework and, in this way, develop leadership capacity across faculties and units at Monash and the higher education sector more broadly. This includes integration of findings into the leadership and management programs already in existence at Monash.