Student Satisfaction with Undergraduate Teaching in China — A Comparison between Research-intensive and Other Universities.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Zhang, Hongshia; Foskett, Nick; Wang, Dianmin; Qu, Mingfeng
- Source
- Higher Education Policy. Mar2011, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1-24. 24p.
- Subject
- *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
*UNDERGRADUATES
*TEACHERS
*EFFECTIVE teaching
*STUDENTS
*SATISFACTION
*EDUCATION policy
- Language
- ISSN
- 0952-8733
This paper presents the findings of a national survey of student satisfaction with undergraduate teaching in a sample of universities and colleges in China. The results show that while a high proportion of academic staff participates in undergraduate teaching, levels of student satisfaction are low. The lowest levels of student satisfaction are found in research-intensive universities. The study concludes that the main causes of this situation are: a shortage of well-qualified academic staff; the pressure on academic staff to focus their time on research output; policies and practices that emphasize research-orientation in the evaluation of academic staff performance; and poor support for teaching in terms of both support staff and teaching facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]