TIF 2001 - Service Teaching

Building a responsive and effective service teaching program

The aim of this project was to enhance the teaching and learning experiences of students in client faculties who are required to study first year science units of study as part of their professional degree program.


This is the final report for the project delivered to the Faculty, November 2002. All documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF).
For the appendices, only the discussion components are included in this online version.

Executive Summary

Chapter 1: Overview
       Appendix 1: Interested parties
       Appendix 2: Kirkpatrick's four-level model for assessing training effectiveness

Chapter 2: Biological Sciences delivering to Education students
       Appendix 1: Survey conducted in 2001
       Appendix 2: Unit of Study evaluation
       Appendix 3: Survey conducted in 2002
       Appendix 4: Staff interview questions

Chapter 3: Physics delivering to Agriculture students
       Appendix 1: Survey conducted in 2001
       Appendix 2: Online module evaluation
       Appendix 3: Survey conducted in 2002
       Appendix 4: Staff interview questions

Chapter 4: Chemistry delivering to Agriculture students
       Appendix 1: Survey conducted in 2001
       Appendix 2: Online module usage evaluation
       Appendix 3: Survey conducted in 2002
       Appendix 4: Staff interview questions

Chapter 5: Mathematics and Statistics delivering to Engineering students
       Appendix 1: Mathematics requirements for Engineering degree programs
       Appendix 2: Engineering units for which mathematics is a prerequisite or assumed knowledge
       Appendix 3: Mathematics use cases
       Appendix 4: Student evaluation questionnaire
       Appendix 5: Staff interview questions
       Appendix 6: Survey to be conducted in 2003

Chapter 6: Summary of outcomes and conclusions

P.S. Mathematics and Statistics trialled their development with Summer School 2003 students. Summary of survey results


For further information contact
Kaye Placing

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