Utvecklingsmöjligheter för Malmö Högskolas lärarguide : Opportunities for improvement of Malmö University's teacher's guide

Sammanfattning: The aim of the study has been to examine how Malmö University’s teachers guide for student introduction can improve and become more useful to teachers during student introduction periods at the university. Through an online survey and semi structured interviews data has been collected and has been the foundation when addressing the three research question; 1. To what extent is the teacher’s guide used by the programme coordinators during the introduction? 2. How does the programme coordinators experience the teacher’s guide regarding availability, content and ease of use? 3. How can the teacher’s guide develop in order to improve the intercommunion between the resources teacher’s guide and teachers?The results show that at present time, the teacher’s guide is known to 67% of the responding programme coordinators (33 of 49), of which 71% have used the guide at least on one occasion. The most common use of the guide was as a checklist. Other findings where that there are room for improvements regarding how the teacher’s guide is introduced and communicated. Regarding the content only few adjustments where desired and the teacher’s guide’s ease of use was non-problematic. The study has resulted in four improvement proposals linked directly to the teacher’s guide, and an additional four improvement proposals linked to the future development of the teacher’s guide and its intercommunion with teachers.