ABSTRACT
The subject of quality is an important one for early career university teachers. To give you a broad understanding of this subject, the chapter starts with a brief outline of national approaches to assessing quality assurance and enhancement. It then focuses on institutional quality management frameworks and their implications for individual academic staff. In your teaching, it will be important to understand the links between quality and standards in university teaching. The chapter exemplifies these connections by drawing on the example of the Quality and Standards Framework at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Such frameworks are helpful to guide university teachers in thinking about the range of ways in which academic standards apply in teaching, assessment practices and student learning support. Strategies are presented for monitoring and assuring quality and standards in your teaching. Ultimately, the focus in all such activities is the impact on student learning and outcomes. Practical suggestions for gathering and documenting evidence of the quality of your teaching are considered, including peer observation of teaching and formative, qualitative data to complement the existing use of summative student feedback surveys.
