Dr Gwendolyn Alderman

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Biography
Dr Lyn Alderman is the Associate Director, Academic Quality and Standards within the Learning and Teaching Unit at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Developed over the last nine years at QUT, Lyn has a prominent national and emerging internal academic profile in evaluation and institutional analytics. She is dedicated to ethical and transparent processes that improve the quality experience and each student and ultimately aspires to contribute to the betterment of society through evaluative thinking and practice. As the responsible officer who leads and enables academic staff to continuously improve their evaluation and course quality assurance practices, Lyn demonstrates excellence by modeling good scholarly practice. This is exemplified through a structured approach to measurably strengthen our teaching quality and outcomes which includes: (i) environmental scan of national practice; (ii) literature review of international and national scholarship; (iii) stakeholder engagement across QUT; and (iv) external dissemination through peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers. Lyn's keynote speaker invitation on institutional analytics, presentations to international workshops and a national award are recognition of her leadership to position QUT to be pioneers of evaluation and institutional analytics. In the future, she demonstrate excellence by modeling good scholarly practice through a number of proven activities: (a) research focus on Category 2 Government funding through government evaluation tenders; (b) dissemination through three journal articles in high quality journals and three conference presentations per year; (c) continue teaching evaluative thinking and practice into the Masters of Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies); (d) lead the Australasian Evaluation Society to introduce professional registration for evaluators by 2018; (e) as Editor-in-Chief of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia lead the journal towards acceptance by Scopus and Web of Science; and (f) contribute to social good through conducting one pro bono evaluation for a charitable organisation each year.
Personal details
Keywords
evaluation, pedagogy, higher education, quality, policy, curriculum, assessment
Discipline
Education Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Education (University of Newcastle)
- Bachelor of Education in Adult Education (University of Tech., Sydney)
- Certificate IV Assessor and Training (University of Tech., Sydney)
Professional memberships and associations
- President, Australasian Evaluation Society
- Advisory Board Member, Centre for Program Evaluation, University of Melbourne
Publication roles
- Editor-in-Chief, Evaluation Journal of Australasia
- Chair, Journal and Publication Committee, Australasian Evaluation Society
- Reviewer, Evaluation Journal of Australasia
- Reviewer, Quality Assurance in Education
Memberships
- Association for Tertiary Education Management
- Australasian Association for Institutional Research
- Australasian Evaluation Society
- Higher Education research and Development Society of Australasia
Teaching
Selected publications
- Alderman L, (2015) Context-sensitive evaluation: Determining the context surrounding the implementation of a government policy, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 15 (4), pp. 4-15.
- Alderman L, (2015) Illuminative evaluation as a method applied to Australian Government policy borrowing and implementation in higher education, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 15 (1), pp. 4-14.
- Alderman L, (2015) The application of learning analytics to improve learning: Questions from the academy, Presented at: Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute, pp. 1.
- Alderman L, Towers S, Bannah S, Phan T, (2014) Reframing evaluation of learning and teaching: An approach to change, Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 14 (1), pp. 24-34.
- Alderman L, (2014) Reframe QUT's Evaluation framework: A case study of planning, policy and positioning leading to educational best practice, Presented at: Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) Annual Forum, pp. 1.
- Alderman L, Melanie L, (2012) REFRAME: a new approach to evaluation in higher education, Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, 9 (1), pp. 33-41.
- Alderman L, Towers S, Bannah S, (2012) Student feedback systems in higher education: a focused literature review and environmental scan, Quality in Higher Education, 18 (3), pp. 261-280.
- Alderman L, Melanie L, (2012) REFRAME: a new approach to evaluation in higher education, Presented at: Australasian Higher Education Evaluation Forum (AHEEF) 2012, pp. 1.
- Alderman L, (2010) Finding your research voice : the application of bibliometrics as an analytic literature tool on the pedagogic field of higher education, Postgraduate and Newer Researchers Conference, SRHE, pp. 1-3.
- Duncan M, Alderman L, (2010) Future directions in course quality assurance (Poster), Presented at: Tertiary Education Management Conference, pp. 1-10.
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Staff Giving and Learning Potential Fund Partnership Award. In recognition of your outstanding support to the QUT Staff Giving Program and the Learning Potential Fund.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award ($6,000). Individual award for leadership, collegiality, evaluation and action that impact learning and teaching environments.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award ($2,500). Team award for Reframe: QUT's Evaluation Team
Research projects
- Title
- Developing co-operative education in the built environment through post occupancy evaluation of DETE educational facilities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SD14-4395
- Start year
- 2014
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