Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik Nr. 3-4/1994
Feedback versus Evaluation
Part III: Legal framework and models for improvement
Otto Nigsch (Linz, Austria)
The Duty of Evaluation or the Egg of the Minister
Summary
It is one of the important innovations of the recently published UOG 94 (University Organization Law), that in the future at the end of every semester all the obligatory learning courses or, if there is a need, larger organizational university units should be evaluated. These new orderings do not at all find unlimited support from people concerned and can be classified in different ways: As a renewal of the efforts for better didactical achievments, as a way of stimulating teaching innovations, as institutionalization of control of efficiency or as a desire of governmental authorities with few chances to be realized.
A critical examination of some recent evaluation studies shows that data accumulation without sufficient theoretical backgrounds will not at all support the ambition of a deeper reflexion of teaching and learning processes. If there does not preceed a comprehensive description of the universities place in contemporary society, their tasks and potentialities of realization through cooperation of teachers and students, evaluations will lack success even if they are be imposed by law.
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