1. Teaching Excellence Framework Provider’s views: emerging challenges and opportunities
Stephen Denyer
PVC (Education & Student Experience)
University of Brighton
HEA Network TEF Session
17th November 2016

2. Making the most of the submission
Testing the metrics for amendment requests
Why bother?
Identifying own errors and acknowledged year-end errors
Material difference: core metrics versus split metrics
Z-scores are SE not SD
Metric evidence
Contextual benchmarking against sector averages
Use of own metrics

3. Making the most of the submission
Narrative
Student participation
Case examples
Translating localised good practice
External review
Tone

4. Assessment and consistency of judgement
Veracity of evidence – TEF officers
Gathering of intelligence – avoiding prior knowledge
Localised practices as pilots
Considerable weighting on split metrics to reassess first opinion
How will assessors weight metrics versus narrative?
Assessor disagreement - moderation

5. Perceived opportunities
Institutional refocus
Collection of metrics
Learning gain – development of measures
Value for money
Commendations

6. Perceived challenges Overweighting of NSS
Accommodating future change in metrics eg. NSS changes, new metrics
Metrics do not reflect teaching excellence
Partial engagement by sector; tactical participation
Subject-level TEF
Subject diversity and JACS codes
Metrics only?
Relationship to institutional TEF
Linkage to fees
Too rushed

7. Thinking about subject-level TEF
How could subjects be defined and grouped?
How should subject-level and provider-level interact?
Evidence base: additional metrics and PSRBs
Panel number, role and remit
How can widening participation goals be supported?