The massification, the internationalisation as well as the diversification of higher education influence also what is defined as effective. Hence, effective teaching increasingly involves successful management of the complex context in which learning and teaching take place (Devlin and Samarawickrema, 2010). The most widely accepted criterion of effective teaching up to date is student learning and the most widely accepted criterion of student learning in instructional effectiveness research is performance on standardised examinations (Marsh, 2007, p. 338).