260215 INTRODUCTION John Lowrey Dean of Undergraduate Studies CHSS WRITING LEARNING OUTCOMES WORKSHOP 260215 A lot of recent work in CHSS has involved some discussion of learning outcomes and an acknowledgement that we need to engage with the idea of learning outcomes more thoroughly than ID: 544011
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INTRODUCTION
John Lowrey
Dean of Undergraduate StudiesSlide2
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A lot of recent work in CHSS has involved some discussion of learning outcomes and an acknowledgement that we need to engage with the idea of learning outcomes more thoroughly than we have done hitherto
Alongside that, learning outcomes have also featured in initiatives coming from
senatus
level work, e.g. in CSPC
Much of the discussion so far has been of a bureaucratic nature, both within CUGLAT and in most of the events held around PCIM
Exception was most recent briefing on enhanced course descriptor, which was essentially a theoretical discussion on learning outcomes
Today, opportunity to combine the practical and the theoretical in a workshopSlide3
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CHSS Course approval process
Listed learning outcomes
Statement on formative feedback
Requirement to link/map learning outcomes to assessment
Programme level assessment plan
Aim is to devolve all responsibility for course approval to schools, using robust approval mechanisms and strong Boards of StudiesSlide4
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2. CHSS work on courses/programmes
Greater focus on relationship between course and programme
LEAF/TESTA initiative is examining courses and assessment in much greater detail
Programme Pathways Project will provide greater flexibility and greater clarity in student pathways but needs very strong course informationSlide5
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3. PCIM & Enhanced Course Descriptor
April deadline for ‘tidy up’ of DRPS, which includes recasting all existing courses to give them listed learning outcomes (maximum 5)
Essentially a bureaucratic process –
at this point
Possibility that some courses might take the opportunity to do something more ambitious, which would require full approvalSlide6Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10
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4. PCIM and Course Approval
New ‘CCAM’ takes on board CHSS course approval system but will supersede it
Only the Programme Assessment Plan cannot be accommodated
CHSS will therefore postpone that aspect of course approval
Phase 2 of PCIM (‘Programme’) will deal with that
Key aspect of that will be concerned with the relationship between course level learning outcomes and programme level outcomesSlide11
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. Moving Forward
Pragmatic focus is currently on April deadline
New
courses will have the opportunity to think about assessment and learning outcomes to a much greater extent than most of us have done in the past
Online guidance is already starting to appear in the new system………Slide12
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SO..
We may as well do it properly!