Title: Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning Can Lesson be Learned from External Experiences
1Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning -
Can Lesson be Learned from External Experiences?
- QEM, Auckland University September 2005
- Dorte Kristoffersen
- Audit Director
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2Briefing Outline
- Different interpretations of Teaching and
Learning - External Enhancement methods and results
- 3. Quality Enhancement as a tool of change
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3Interpretations of TL
- The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching
objective 1 promote and support strategic change
for the enhancement of learning and teaching,
including curriculum development and assessment.
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4Interpretations of TL cont
- QAA Scotland focus on effective student
learning, reference points including the Scottish
Credit and Qualification Framework and
appropriate reference to employer and
international perspectives
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5Interpretations of TL cont
- The Traditional European Approach
- Aims and objectives
- Study structure
- Academic principles
- Teaching and learning practice
- Assessment methods and content
- Staff and Student profile
- Teaching resources
- External relationships
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6Interpretations of TL cont
- An institutional perspective Teaching and
Learning or Learning and Teaching or simply
Learning or Teaching.
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7Some characteristics of Australian universities
- Large numbers of international students
- Multi-faculty universities
- Self accrediting
- Professional accreditation
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8TL Enhancement Institutional level
- Examples
- Course approval and accreditation
- Graduate Attributes
- External feedback
- Teacher appraisal and professional development
- Pedagogical development units
- Student feedback
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9TL Enhancement National level
- Examples
- CEQ, PREQ and GDS
- The Carrick Institute of Learning and Teaching
- Learning and Teaching Performance Fund
- AUQA
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10CEQ topics
- Good teaching
- Generic skills
- Overall satisfaction
- Clear goals and standards
- Appropriate workload
- Appropriate assessment
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11PREQ
- Supervision
- Skills development
- Intellectual climate
- Infrastructure
- Thesis administration
- Goals
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12L T Performance Fund
- CEQ Generic skills, Good teaching, Overall
satisfaction (55) - Students in full-time employment (11,48)
- Those that go on to full time study (10,29)
- Drop-out or attrition rates (10,65)
- Student progress rates or pass rates (12, 26)
- Ian Dobson, Educational Policy Institute
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13European QA
ENQA SURVEY ON QUALITY PROCEDUES IN EUROPEAN HE
2004
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14QA as a change factor
- Definition of the object (TL)
- Who are affected and who can contribute
- How can the contributions be organised?
- What is the purpose of the contributions?
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15- The systemic approach to QA also leads to a
reformulation of the question about quality.
Independent of its definitions quality is the
product of interaction between actors or elements
in the system. It is the consequence of the
functioning of the system. - ENQA Quality Convergence Project, February 2005.
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