Building sustainable and effective assurance of learning process in a changing higher education environment

Erica French; Romy Lawsom; Tracey Taylor; James Herbert; Eveline Fallshaw; Cathy Hall; Shelley Kinash; Jane Summers

Building sustainable and effective assurance of learning process in a changing higher education environment

Erica French, Romy Lawsom, Tracey Taylor, James Herbert, Eveline Fallshaw, Cathy Hall, Shelley Kinash, Jane Summers

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Abstract

In a study of assuring learning in Australian Business Schools, 25 Teaching and Learning Associate Deans were interviewed to identify current issues in developing and measuring the quality of teaching and learning outcomes. Results indicate that for most institutions developing a perspective on graduate attributes and mapping assessments to measure outcomes across an entire program required knowledge creation and the building of new inclusive processes. Common elements of effective practice, namely those which offered consistently superior outcomes, included: inclusive processes; embedded graduate attributes throughout a program; alongside consistent and appropriate assessment. Results indicate that assurance of learning processes are proliferating nationally while quality of teaching and learning outcomes and in the processes for assuring it is increasing as a result.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference : Managing for Volatility and Instability(ANZAM)
Place of Publication	Western Australia
Publisher	Curtin University of Technology
Pages	1-17
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9780987415806
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference - Perth, Australia Duration: 5 Dec 2012 → 7 Dec 2012 Conference number: 26

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Conference	26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	5/12/12 → 7/12/12

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French, E., Lawsom, R., Taylor, T., Herbert, J., Fallshaw, E., Hall, C., Kinash, S., & Summers, J. (2012). Building sustainable and effective assurance of learning process in a changing higher education environment. In 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference : Managing for Volatility and Instability(ANZAM) (pp. 1-17). Curtin University of Technology.

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French, E, Lawsom, R, Taylor, T, Herbert, J, Fallshaw, E, Hall, C, Kinash, S & Summers, J 2012, Building sustainable and effective assurance of learning process in a changing higher education environment. in 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference : Managing for Volatility and Instability(ANZAM). Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, pp. 1-17, 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 5/12/12.

Building sustainable and effective assurance of learning process in a changing higher education environment. / French, Erica; Lawsom, Romy; Taylor, Tracey et al.
26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference : Managing for Volatility and Instability(ANZAM). Western Australia: Curtin University of Technology, 2012. p. 1-17.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review

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