Assessing distributed leadership for learning and teaching quality: a multi-institutional study
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-19, 01:29authored byCarbone, A, Evans, J, Ross, B, Steve DrewSteve Drew, Phelan, L, Lindsay, K, Cottman, C, Stoney, S, Ye, J
Distributed leadership has been explored internationally as a leadership model that will promote and advance excellence in learning and teaching in higher education. This paper presents an assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development scheme called the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme. The Scheme brings together expertise from teams of academics, coordinators, and institutional learning and teaching portfolio holders to the shared goal of enhancing learning and teaching quality. A distributed leadership benchmarking tool was used to assess the Scheme’s effectiveness, and we found that (i) the Scheme is highly consistent with the distributed leadership benchmarks, and that (ii) the benchmarking tool is easily used in assessing the alignment (or otherwise) of teaching and learning quality initiatives with distributed leadership benchmarks. This paper will be of interest to those seeking to assess implementations of distributed leadership to improve teaching quality and leadership capacity.
History
Publication title
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
Volume
39
Pagination
183-196
ISSN
1360-080X
Department/School
DVC - Education
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Australia
Rights statement
Copyright 2017 Association for Tertiary Education Management and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management