Followup: myth or reality

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• Follow-up myth or reality?
• Kim Waeytens and Veerle Hulpiau

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Introduction

• background
• high investments in systems of quality assessment
• K.U.Leuven educational policy plan
• research questions
• method

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• Research questions

• To what extent does follow-up take place in
  response to educational evaluations?

• How might the presence or absence of follow-up be
  explained?

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• Research method
• document analysis
• interviews

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Follow-up figures and facts
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How to explain?

• Rewarding education

• Research climate

• Traditional/mis-conceptions about education

• Lack of expertise

• Academic freedom

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Politics
- opinions- resources - power
Structures
Human resources
- responsibilities - as given - appropriateness
- lack of expertise- rewarding education
Culture
- conceptions- vision - academic freedom -
research climate - fundamentals
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Conclusion

• debate

• education vs. research

• professional development

• curriculum committee

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• You already feel happy if in a appraisal
  committee education is taken into account at all.
  But then you find out that other evaluation
  standards are applied. Such committee is already
  very satisfied with the slightest reference to
  education, for example if there is reference to
  somebody who once gave a lecture for unions
  representatives.
• Whereas in the case of research there are
  criteria such as citations, articles in
  periodicals, congresses ... which are taken much
  more seriously.
• Education is referred to more readily but without
  real commitment. In the end its the researcher
  that is ranked first.

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• He is the one who does the research and hence
  good education implies that the results of
  research are communicated. And therefore the
  quality of your education depends on the quality
  of the information that is transmitted and not
  the way it is transmitted."

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• When do I see someone else teach? Incidentally,
  if you are teaching with somebody else, youll
  say he really can teach and that is somebody
  who cannot. But you are fully on your own ...
  No, to attend someones classes or invite
  somebody to yours ... and discuss it afterwards
  ... Thats really a taboo for you to break with.

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the evaluation process in reports
EVALUATION
FOLLOW-UP

• Internal evaluation
• individual
• reports
• (courses)
• self-study
• global report
• (curriculum)

external evaluation report of the visiting
committee
Follow-up report on the follow-up of the
programme directors
Academic council preparatory document and
minutes of the discussion of the follow-up report