Quality of teaching

Quality of Teaching

Institution

Date

1. A description of the topic

Teaching is essential in the society because it helps in building the knowledge of the students and at the same time enhancing their careers. It is essential to make sure that the quality of teaching is taken to a higher level to make sure that the students who leave the education sector do so with the knowledge that is essential to their careers. The topic that will be expounded on, in this case, is "quality of teaching." The topic is in the context of "project management education," and therefore the focus will be more on project management (Jasman et al. 2013). It is paramount to note that when the quality of teaching is taken to a higher level, management of projects is affected positively as well.

2. A table of four relevant articles

	Article 1	Article 2	Article 3	Articles 4
Name of the authors	Dylan Sutherland, Philip Warwick, John Anderson, and Mark Learmonth	Suseela Malakolunthu, John McBeath, and Sue Swaffield	Manuel F. Suárez-Barraza & Francisco G. Rodríguez-González	Anne Jasman Eddie Blass Steve Shelley
Title	How Do Quality of Teaching, Assessment, and Feedback Drive Undergraduate Course Satisfaction in U.K. Business Schools? A Comparative Analysis With Nonbusiness School Courses Using the U.K. National Student Survey	Improving the quality of teaching and learning through leadership for learning: Changing scenarios in basic schools of Ghana	Bringing Kaizen to the classroom: lessons learned in an Operations Management course	Becoming an Academic for the Twenty-first Century: what will count as teaching quality in higher education
Date of the publication	2018	2014	2016	2013
Keywords used	Module Evaluation, MEQ, Regression analysis, student satisfaction, TEF, business school.	capacity building, education development, Ghana leadership for learning, teaching-learning	Kaizen, TQM, educational context	CEQ, intersection, University Academics
URL	http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1052562918787849	http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1741143213510510	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14783363.2015.1068594	http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.6.660

3. A summary of the most relevant article

The article takes an interest in the quality of teaching mostly in the universities. One of the reasons why people enroll in universities is to make sure that they achieve the knowledge that is helpful to their future careers. Therefore, it is evident that the concentration of the universities should be more on the future aspect as opposed to dealing with the current issues. It is for this reason that the article has put more focus on the aspect of future perspectives. The higher education sector has a direct connection with the employment sector. The reason for stating so is associated with the fact that people who leave colleges and universities are absorbed by organizations (Malakolunthu et al. 2014). Therefore, the higher education programs should be in line with the demand that is in the labor market. To see the essentiality of the current higher education programs as well as how they affect the future workforce, the article will be looking at the workforce that will be needed in 2035 in the United Kingdom. The workforce will be compared against the education needs to see if the higher education institutions meet the needs.

The article will differentiate and define teachers and the quality of teaching. English and Australian high education trends will be focused on. The quality of teaching and the teacher go hand in hand. The reason for stating so is because the teacher is always seen as the vessel that helps in delivering quality education. The quality of education has a significant effect on the students in the higher education (Sutherland et al. 2018). It is for this reason that the article has concluded that there is a need for higher education to meet the needs of the students. Meeting the needs of the students in the higher education sector will be boosting the quality of education thus equipping the students to be useful in the employment sector.

4. A critical appraisal of the article

The most suitable in line with the selected topic is “Becoming an Academic for the Twenty-first Century: what will count as teaching quality in higher education." The reasons why the article is the most suitable are several, and one of them is associated with the aspect of discussing the issue that has been raised by the topic. The topic has raised the issue of the quality of education from the perspective of project management. In line with the topic, the article meets the criterion in two different stages. The first stage is associated with the level of education. Project management is a course that is taught in the higher learning education, and it prepares the students to become future professionals in managing projects (Rogers, 2013). The article has concentrated more on the higher learning education. Therefore, it is evident that the information that the article avails can be used to provide more supporting facts to the topic. The article has also concentrated on the aspect of the quality of teaching and teachers. In this respect, it is apparent that the article has directly focused on the topic.

The second reason the article is suitable to the topic is that the article does not only rest where the topic rests, but it goes further to provide information that is critical to the topic. The article has focused on the future of the education in the higher education sector. It is imperative to note that most of the students who leave the higher education sector are exposed to the employment sector (Jasman et al. 2013). Therefore, it would be unfair to talk about the quality of education without targeting or touching on the primary beneficiaries. The article has focused on the future perspective. By doing so, the article has been able to outline some of the possible impacts of an improved quality of education to the principal beneficiaries.

5. Preliminary research questions

a) Does the level of the quality of education affect the employment sector?

b) What are the trends in improving the quality of education in the higher education sector?

6. My personal reflection

In my opinion, the article is credible and meets the threshold of being used to provide more facts about the topic that has been selected. It is imperative to note that the credibility of any given article can be seen in the content that it provides to the targeted audience. In this case, I find the article helpful in different ways. The first way is associated with the breadth that the authors have taken in focusing on the matter. In most cases, the authors focus more on the research questions without offering additional information that would help to argue the topic (Suárez-Barraza & Rodríguez-González, 2015). The article has not only provided information about the topic, but it has also gone steps further to explain some of the essential aspects.

I find the article helpful because it has tried to relate the quality of education and the effects that it can have on the beneficiaries of the higher learning sector. The quality of education can only be known through the possible effects that it has on the beneficiaries. In this respect, the students are the beneficiaries. The article has looked into some of the needs that are predicted to be presented in the coming years in the employment sector. By knowing the needs, it has become easier to look at the quality of education and know if the needs are met or not. The article has also gone ahead to define the quality of education as well as the quality of teaching. By providing in-depth information, it has been easy to associate the information that has been provided by the article and the topic that was selected. In summary, the article is helpful to the topic in different ways that are beneficial to the targeted audience. Therefore, it is the most suitable for the topic.

Reference

Malakolunthu, S., McBeath, J., & Swaffield, S. (2014). Improving the quality of teaching and learning through leadership for learning: Changing scenarios in basic schools of Ghana. Educational management administration & leadership, 42(5), 701-717.

Suárez-Barraza, M. F., & Rodríguez-González, F. G. (2015). Bringing Kaizen to the classroom: lessons learned in an Operations Management course. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 26(9-10), 1002-1016.

Sutherland, D., Warwick, P., Anderson, J., & Learmonth, M. (2018). How Do Quality of Teaching, Assessment, and Feedback Drive Undergraduate Course Satisfaction in UK Business Schools? A Comparative Analysis With Nonbusiness School Courses Using the UK National Student Survey. Journal of Management Education, 1052562918787849.

Jasman, A., Eddie, B., & Steve, S. (2013). Becoming an Academic for the Twenty-first Century: what will count as teaching quality in higher education. Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 11.

Rogers, B. (2013). The value of work-based projects in management education. Industrial and Commercial Training.