Teaching award winners – (in)visible best-practice examples? Findings from Austria and Switzerland

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Table 1. Items of the questionnaire.

Item text	Response
Who took the initiative regarding the nomination for the teaching award?	Single choice (e.g. ‘Self-initiated nomination’)
What do you think is the main purpose of the award?	Multiple choice (e.g. ‘Individual recognition’)
Have you been asked to share teaching-related expertise and experience in connection with the winning of the teaching award?	Multiple choice (e.g. ‘Yes, by other universities’)
Have you shared your teaching-related expertise and experience before and/or after the winning of the teaching award?	Multiple choice (e.g. ‘Before: informal among peers’)
My readiness to tell others about my lectures and seminars is great.	4-point scale from ‘strongly disagree’ (1) to ‘strongly agree’ (4)
Has the teaching award had significance for your academic career and if so, in what way?	‘Yes, namely … ’; ‘No’; ‘I do not know’
Winning the teaching award meant a personal gain in reputation to me.	4-point scale from ‘strongly disagree’ (1) to ‘strongly agree’ (4)
Have there been any negative effects of the teaching award affecting you and if so, which ones?	‘Yes, namely’; ‘No’

Table 2. Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants.

Characteristics	Austrian award winners		Swiss award winners
	n	%	n	%
Gender
Female	23	35.9	33	25.2
Male	41	64.1	96	73.3
Diverse	–	–	2	1.5
Type of higher-education institution
University	44	71.0	99	75.6
University of applied sciences	15	24.2	26	19.8
University of teacher education	1	1.6	6	4.6
Private university	2	3.2	–	–
Position
Full professor or senior researcher with leadership responsibilities for academic staff	29	45.3	77	58.8
Junior researcher (e.g. PhD student), postdoc, or lecturer	26	40.6	53	40.5
Member of the university management	9	14.1	1	0.8
Collective or individual award
Honoured as a member of a teacher team	46	71.9	29	22.3
Individual award	18	28.1	101	77.7

Figure 1. Ways in which teaching-related expertise and experience were shared before and after the winning of the teaching award (multiple answers possible).

Figure 2. Invitation to share teaching-related expertise and experience in connection with the winning of the teaching award (multiple answers possible).