Implementing the HEAR at UWIC [now Cardiff Metropolitan University]

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Implementing the HEAR at UWIC now Cardiff
Metropolitan University
cardiffmet.ac.uk/HEAR

• Dr Jon OwenHEA Associate
• formerly Academic Registrar at
• University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
• Friday 27th April 2012

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Starting points

• already issue QAAHE (national) transcript /
  Diploma Supplement as a matter of course for all
  taught programmes (includes marks for all
  modules)
• explanatory text available separately to support
  the transcript
• good links with the Student Union
• straightforward to convert the transcript /
  Diploma Supplement into a(n almost) HEAR
• decided at the start as a policy to have no
  hand-editing of the HEARs always produced
  automatically from our student and academic
  information system(s)

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Possibilities for inclusion in 6.1

• prizes
• sabbatical officers
• volunteering?
• student reps?
• final year project or dissertation titles?
• when are they decided? who types them in? section
  4?
• societies?
• all posts included? who authorises? where is
  information held?
• representing Cardiff Metropolitan University?
• at what level? sports? appearances? exhibitions?
  verification?
• graduate attributes?

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4.3 Programme details, and the individual grades,
marks and credits obtained

• drilling down to modules, then assessment
  components
• actually quite straightforward information
  exists already for examining boards
• how best to present it? who will actually look
  at this?
• codes for assessment types or description of
  assessment? how much space used / reader
  interest?
• an approved taxonomy of assessment types
• links through to module descriptors on the web
  (for a given year)

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Points for reflection

• information for section 6.1
• drilling down to assessment components
• design format fixed or variable length?
• catalyst to improve existing ad hoc procedures
• possible use of XCRI for programme information
• well-documented requirements for Agresso to
  implement
• Welsh translation of HEAR / ACAU template
• information on the Web (see title page)