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Interview questions that surface the hidden curriculum

Seven open questions about how a module worked in practice

Question bank of seven open interview questions that surface a module's hidden curriculum: what counted and how the module worked in practice.
Open questions that get students describing how the module worked in practice
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A bank of seven open questions for student interviews or focus groups about a module's hidden curriculum: the unwritten rules about what counts, what gets praised and what can be skipped. It is for module teams and quality staff who want evidence beyond satisfaction ratings. Compare the answers with the module's stated learning outcomes to find where the two diverge. Koji can ask these as part of a conversational course evaluation and group the answers into themes.

What's in this question bank

What counted

  1. What did you work out you had to do to do well in this module?
  2. What did you decide you could skip, and how did you decide?
  3. If a friend were starting this module next year, what would you tell them that is not in the handbook?
  4. What kind of contribution seemed to get noticed or praised?

How the module worked in practice

  1. Think of a seminar or class. Who spoke, and who stayed quiet?
  2. Was there anything you felt you were expected to know already that nobody taught?
  3. Did anything about how the module was run seem to contradict what it said it valued?

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