Evaluating the Student Experience in Art and Design

This paper was presented at the ADM-HEA GLAD (Group for Learning in Art and Design) Conference 2007. The paper emanates from a seminar held at the 3rd CLTAD conference in Lisbon where some questions were posed about the evaluation of the student experience. The opportunity had presented itself to ask these questions in the light of recent practice in the UK (NSS the National Student Survey) and to compare this practice with other international practices but furthermore to explore what we really wanted to learn from evaluating the student experience and why.