ABSTRACT This article focuses on the role of student feedback in the process of higher education quality assurance. The most recent reforms of the educational systems encourage teachers to enlarge their educational paradigm by experimenting with assessment practices that would go behind accountability and be more responsive to students’ learning needs. In Italy, despite the widespread acknowledgment of the role played by students’ feedback in providing information about the outputs of their education, the quality assurance process has remained, thus far, largely unchanged. Student compliance with rather traditional academic teaching practices and a diffused sense of uselessness of the results coming from end-course surveys represent increasing malpractices in the Italian quality assurance system. In view of the above, the article reports an explorative study aimed to develop a mid-term survey for student feedback. Implications for future research are discussed.

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中期调查中学生的反馈：在意大利大学环境中的探索性贡献

摘要本文重点介绍学生反馈在高等教育质量保证过程中的作用。教育制度的最新改革鼓励教师通过试验评估实践来扩大他们的教育范式，这种评估实践将追究责任制，并对学生的学习需求做出更迅速的反应。在意大利，尽管人们广泛认可学生的反馈在提供有关其教育成果的信息方面所起的作用，但迄今为止，质量保证过程基本上保持不变。学生遵守相当传统的学术教学习惯以及对最终调查结果的漫无用感，这表示意大利质量保证体系中越来越多的渎职行为。有鉴于此，这篇文章报告了一项探索性研究，旨在为学生的反馈开展中期调查。讨论了对未来研究的意义。