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Quality assurance, learning outcomes and qualification frameworks

This article discusses the importance of learning outcomes and qualification frameworks in ensuring quality education, focusing on European and national frameworks. It covers the establishment of clear learning objectives and emphasizes the role of quality assurance processes to assess these outcomes. The text explores the link between learning outcomes and quality assurance, as well as the development and implementation of standards in higher education programs.

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Quality assurance, learning outcomes and qualification frameworks

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  1. Quality assurance, learning outcomes and qualification frameworks TiaLoukkola Director forInstitutional Development 22 January 2016

  2. Qualification frameworks • Two European overarching frameworks • EHEA-QF (higher education, Bologna Process) • EQF (lifelong learning, European Union) • National qualification frameworks (NQF) to be referenced to the European ones • To date about half of the EHEA countries have finalised the self-referencing process • Educational levels are described in terms of learning outcomes: knowledge, skills and competences

  3. Learning outcomes • Learning outcome approach • Promoted strongly by the Bologna Process • Partially implemented across Europe, but progress has been made • Different understandings prevail Statements of what a learner knows, understands and is able to do on completion of a learning process. The achievement of learning outcomes has to be assessed through procedures based on clear and transparent criteria. Learning outcomes are attributed to individual educational components and to programmes at a whole. They are also used in European and national qualifications frameworks to describe the level of the individual qualification. ECTS guide 2015

  4. Development of learning outcomes in 2010 and 2015 Trends 2010, Q19: N= 755 Trends 2015, Q36: N= 424

  5. Learning outcomes and QFs in the ESG (1) • Learning outcomes • Highly debated during the ESG revision • How the link with QA should be defined? • Division of roles between HEIs and QAAs • National qualification frameworks • No reference in the 2005 ESG -> have been mostly developed since • Needed so to ensure the link between academic quality levels and QA • Division of roles between HEIs and QAAs

  6. Learning outcomes and QFs in the ESG (2) 1.2 Design and approval of programmes • Institutions should have processes for the design and approval of their programmes. The programmes should be designed so that they meet the objectives set for them, including the intended learning outcomes. The qualification resulting from a programme should be clearly specified and communicated, and refer to the correct level of the national qualifications framework for higher education and, consequently, to the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area.

  7. A new standard in Part 1 1.3 Student-centred learning, teaching and assessment • Institutions should ensure that the programmes are delivered in a way that encourages students to take an active role in creating the learning process, and that the assessment of students reflects this approach. …7…

  8. The role of the quality assurance agency? 2.1 Consideration of internal quality assurance • External quality assurance should address the effectiveness of the internal quality assurance described in Part 1 of the ESG. …8…

  9. The Revised ECTS Users’ Guide • Adopted in Yerevan in May 2015 • Credits based on workload and achieved learning outcomes • ECTS as a Bologna tool • ECTS in programme design, delivery and monitoring • ECTS in mobility and recognition • Student-centred approach

  10. Conclusions • Work still to be done in a proper implementation of the learning outcomes and QFs • How these themes are integrated into the QA regimes to be seen

  11. Some key links ECTS guide 2015 http://ec.europa.eu/education/ects/users-guide/index_en.htm EHEA-QF http://www.ehea.info/article-details.aspx?ArticleId=65 EQF https://ec.europa.eu/ploteus/search/site?f%5B0%5D=im_field_entity_type%3A97

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