1. Dr Stuart McGugan Academic Practice Advisor LEAP
Enhancing Learning and Teaching through the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
Dr Stuart McGugan
Academic Practice Advisor
LEAP

2. PCAP: who is it for? Anyone employed at the University of Hull and its partner colleges, involved in teaching and supporting learning, without a recent and relevant teaching qualification in Higher Education.
Level 7 teaching qualification
3 modules over 15 months
Participants teaching at least 30 hours per semester
2 cohorts – 25 each academic year
Aligned to UKPSF - FHEA

3. Enhancing practice through
Structured critical reflection
Peer observation of teaching
Modelling of practice
Communities of practice
Research projects in learning and teaching

4. Impact? The degree of satisfaction of programme participants
The impact of the programme on participants (approaches to teaching)
Impact on the learners taught by the programme participants (approaches to learning)
Trigwell, K., Rodriguez, K., Han, F. (2012) Assessing the impact of a university teaching development programme, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 37(4) 

Why this approach?
Stems from a paper by Keith Trigwell that includes a review of the impact of university teaching development programmes
Makes the point - majority of studies try to evaluate impact tend to use pre-determined frameworks of what success might look like
Try to measure this using various scales…
Groups studies into different kinds
Gibbs – Approaches to teaching Inventory Scale (ATI)
Nothing wrong with this – there may be other kinds of impact we haven’t thought about
Limitation of quantitative approaches - How much do we really know about the individuals who provided the data in the first place?
Leads to interest in IPA