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Lumina and Tuning meets the DQP
Tim Birtwistle
Slide22Why ……………………….?
Slide3Tuning is a five step process comprised of: defining the discipline core; mapping employability; surveying stakeholders;
honing core competencies and learning outcomes; drafting degree profiles.3
Slide4Faculty led, students, employers and alumni involvedTuning USA is a five step process comprised of: defining the discipline core; mapping employability;
surveying stakeholders; honing core competencies and learning outcomes; drafting degree profiles. 4
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Slide6Huba, M.E. & Freed, J.E. (2000).
Learner-centered assessment on college campuses: Shifting the focus from teaching to learning. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. (p. 108). From Kent State Faculty Professional Development Center – February 07 2012.
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Remembering: can the student recall or remember the information? define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, repeat, reproduce,state.Understanding: can the student explain ideas or concepts?
classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report,select, translate, paraphraseApplying: can the student use the information in a new way?
choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write.
Analyzing: can the student distinguish between the different parts?
appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate,
discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test.
Evaluating: can the student justify a stand or decision?
appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate.
Creating: can the student create new product or point of view?
assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write.
From http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
Images from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloomtax.htm
Slide8Tuning Logic Model
General Program Theory: Transparent learning outcomes and attainment criteria increase student access, educational quality, degree production and productivity
Evaluation Objective : To develop an evaluation model that documents progress achieved at each Tuning site and across all sites and that provides actionable feedback to a variety of stakeholders (implementation teams, consultants and funders)
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
OUTCOMES
Near-term
Intermediate
Long-term
EU
Lumina
US/EU
consultants
Higher Ed Exec Offices
Activities
Participation
Regional teams are formed
Regional teams meet
Interaction across states/countries
Discipline
focused
regional/state/country
Teams
-AA/Short-Cycle degree faculty
- BA/Technical School/MA faculty
-graduates
-employers
SLOs/Degree Frameworks
(DF)/Qualifications Frameworks (QF) and competencies established in targeted disciplines
SLOs/
DFs/Q
Fs and competencies are field tested in targeted disciplines
More engaged and better prepared students
Common vocabulary established for Tuning partners
Increased
production
of
certificate
and
degree
holders,
particularly
among
underrepresented
groups
Increased access into and across segments
Departments engage in Tuning process
Institutions engage in Tuning process
Institutionalization of Tuning Process
DRAFT
Slide9What do learners need? Skills!
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Slide10Changing demands for skills
Preparing future professionals and citizens with the right skills
‘21st century skills’
Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking, Problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, Information fluency, Technological literacy
Changing skill demand with the advent of the knowledge economy
Accelerating trend
since 1990s
Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)
Levy and Murnane
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Slide11Semiotics/VocabularyLearning outcomes (LOs)Active LOs (not in a desk drawer)Ratchet up – it is ALL in the verbs
Level descriptors/Levels ALT (not TLA or even LTA)Student centred learning (LOs/ALT)Frameworks (Russian Dolls +)Time – linear/volume – LLL – APL/APELSo – from the ‘bottom up’ – design, delivery, assessment, evaluation, re-design >>>>>>
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Slide12Tuning meets QF:
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ARN
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Slide13Tuning = Subjects, QF = DegreesTuning
QF
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Slide14The Future is about LEARNINGStudents want to learnQuality is about learning
Life long learning in a fast changing world is a mustSkills and abilities will last and develop, jobs will change ~~~ know, understand and be able to do ~~~~~~Because the future is now.
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