The purpose of the project is to formulate a list of achievement standards for Australian Honours graduates in Archaeology. By project end, a nationally agreed public document, developed collaboratively by all Australian university providers of Archaeology, will be produced and disseminated. The project methodology should be transferable to other disciplines.
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By degrees: Benchmarking archaeology degrees in Australian universities
The purpose of the resource is to articulate standards of Honours degrees in archaeology at Australian universities. These benchmarks were developed by a working group of teaching academics involved in archaeology.
Driven by apparent shortcomings in archaeological training identified by employers and students, this resource would be of most use to Honours coordinators and undergraduate coordinators generally. Although it is not explicitly intended, the resource is geared primarily for those who wish to pursue a career as a consultant archaeologist (or a cultural resource manager) after four years of undergraduate training.
The most useful section of the resource is the 'Benchmarking Statements', a series of 34 dot points divided into three categories: subject knowledge and understanding; archaeology-specific skills; generic skills. These are the skills that Honours graduates would be expected to have prior to beginning a vocation in archaeology.
The rest of the resource contains fairly generic statements about archaeology, its importance, teaching and learning environments in Australian universities, and career paths.
Benchmarking archaeology degrees at Australian universities: Final Report
The purpose of the project is to formulate a list of achievement standards for Australian Honours graduates in Archaeology. By project end, a nationally agreed public document, developed collaboratively by all Australian university providers of Archaeology, will be produced and disseminated. The project methodology should be transferable to other disciplines.
Designing a diverse, future-orientated vision for undergraduate psychology in Australia
The University of New South Wales
2008
ECU, Sydney
This impressive resource, developed following extensive consultations with key stakeholders, presents a comprehensive list of key attributes psychology students can develop during their undergraduate studies. By extending the principles of the scientist-practitioner model, there is no doubt that it will become a valuable research-led resource for both students and teachers of psychology.
This resource clearly delineates what will be learned, how it will be learned, what the learning outcomes will be, and how these apply in both the traditional psychology laboratory and in real world settings. This juxtaposition of laboratory and real world learning applications provides added value by challenging students to think more widely. In doing so, it enhances the identity of psychology. Accordingly, the resource is also relevant to students and teachers in Psychiatry and the allied health disciplines.
It may be necessary, however, to make explicit the academic background required for using this resource. For example, it may be essential to flag that empirical skills are a pre-requisite given that Research Methods in Psychology (Attribute 2) are traditionally quantitative. That undergraduate students are becoming interested in qualitative research approaches raises the question of why this is not included in Attribute 2. This is even more questionable given the learning outcome of describing and applying the different research methods used by psychologists and demonstrating practical skills in laboratory-based and other psychological research.
The theoretical orientation and attributes reflect the resource's orientation to a specific cohort of students, which in this discipline is not necessarily a bad thing.
Rewarding and recognising quality teaching in higher education through systemic implementation of indicators and metrics on teaching and teacher effectiveness - Pilot reports
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2008
Pilot project reports from eight universities participating in the Teaching Quality Indicators project.
Other reports from the Teaching Quality Indicators project are available here.
Deakin University, Griffith University, Macquarie University, RMIT University, The University of Queensland, The University of Western Australia, University of South Australia, University of Tasmania
The academic’s and policy-maker’s guides to the teaching-research nexus
Griffith University
2008
Assessing group work in media and communications
University of Canberra
2008
In Media and Communications, authentic tasks are the basis of learning through assessment. Media production in the real world is almost always a collaborative process. Hence, authentic assessment tasks require student to collaborate in groups. Collaborative group work effectively fosters both discipline-specific and generic professional attributes if carefully devised and managed. The project team identified common target areas for improvement, constructed and tested a range of practical tools and techniques for improving assessment in these areas, disseminated results and the products to the Media and Communication teaching community and are providing an online forum for on-going evolution, discussion, testing and feedback by the teaching community.
Macquarie, UNSW
The main focus of the resource is group assessment relevant to a range of disciplines, for example media, communication, creative arts and medical disciplines. It includes 13 case studies (of majors from four universities), explores key issues in relation to group assessment, and includes links to the research literature and keynotes by leading authorities in assessment. The resource is useful for academic staff designing units, courses and programs and who may be intending to incorporate group work. The case studies are useful for both design and assessment samples and for benchmarking purposes. Video is used to develop the key issues: a rationale for group assessment; creating and managing groups; group marks; peer assessment; technology; transparency; and feedback. The presence of both staff and student views and experiences in the video material imparts a particular level of credibility to the discussion of issues and principles. Keynote addresses, on policy, design, implementation, evaluation and learning, from leading authorities in assessment principles, and the practice of group and collaborative assessment, are also included. The case studies are of particular interest to course, unit and program designers as well as academic developers and planning and quality staff, while the issues are of interest to all staff grappling with collaborative or group assessment. The videos, for example those in relation to the rationale for team work, may also be of benefit to students. Users should be made aware of the login link to the forum, an issue which may detract from the website's currency. The resource recognises the competing demands on the user's time and the cognitive load requirements though an accessible design template (using three main and four supplementary links), the use of short videos, and the links to the research literature. The user does not require prior experience, domain-specific knowledge or specific IT requirements to use the resource. The resource deals with the problematic issue of group assessment and solves key issues in a concise and user-friendly way. It is easy to read and navigate and does not need to be read in conjunction with the project report. It is a practical, easy-to-access and use website on group assessment and team work.
Experiential Placements in Pharmacy - Report Appendices
University of South Australia
2008
Outcomes from the project include: seventeen experiential learning and assessment tasks published within an online central repository website; the development and trialling of a competency graduated descriptors tool; and a quality indicators framework indicating stakeholder responsibilities and pre-placement, during placement and post placement aspects. The online repository is available at http://peld.altc.edu.au/.
Sydney
Professionalization of Peace Education through Wiki Networking & Innovative Teaching Methodst
University of New England
2008
The Australian National University
Grants Scheme 2008 Project Summaries
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2008
Grants Scheme 2008 Report
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2008
An Institutional Leadership Paradigm: Transforming practices, structures and conditions in indigenous Higher Education
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
2008
The key resource emanating from this project is the values based Institutional Leadership Paradigm or ILP. The project identified and endorsed key Indigenous values that should be present within an institution in order to facilitate transformative institutional leadership for Indigenous outcomes.
ACU National
Disseminating strategies for incorporating Australian Indigenous content into psychology undergraduate programs throughout Australia
University of South Australia
2008
Australian Writing Programs Network
University of Canberra
2008
QUT, UNE
Leadership and assessment: strengthening the nexus
Macquarie University
2008
Leadership for implementing improvements in the learning and teaching quality cycle
Monash University
2008
Enhancing the student educational experience through school-based curriculum improvement leaders
Murdoch University
2008
The academic’s and policy-maker’s guides to the teaching-research nexus
Griffith University
2008
This excellent resource provides a summary of current thinking on the Teaching-Research Nexus (TRN) for academics, university staff, policy makers and students. The benefits of the TRN for students is presented and is supported with a large number of links to examples of TRN practice by discipline and year levels which should prove to be particularly useful for academics designing or revising existing courses or units. Links to strategy and policy making are also included. The site provides a framework for developing curricula that links teaching and research and is a useful collection of curriculum design ideas for academics. Nineteen concrete examples are presented. The resource may be used to aid the development or review of policies that promote (or hinder) the teaching-research nexus. There are materials supporting all levels of policy makers including government policy makers, those developing university wide policies at Deputy Vice-Chancellor level, and other policy leaders such as heads of departments or schools. In a short commentary the authors give advice to those academics early in their career or wanting to build their career. The main focus is on the advantages of being conscious of the RTN in their work as an academic. This is very much a personal view from the authors and contains only one reference.
Investigating the application of IT generated data as an indicator of learning and teaching performance
Queensland University of Technology
2008
Linuxgym: A sustainable and easy-to-use automated developmental assessment tool for computer scripting skills
University of Technology, Sydney
2008
The project focuses on the adaptation, further development and dissemination of LinuxGym, a system for improving IT students’ scripting skills through automated developmental assessment and feedback. Linuxgym will be both a desktop application and an online library of clearly categorized questions.
Promoting the Sharing and Reuse of Technology-Supported Learning Designs. ALTC Associate Fellowship Report
Edith Cowan University
2008
The Technology-Supported Learning Database is designed to make effective technology-facilitated teaching ideas, reusable and sharable. The database seeks to share good teaching ideas. The learning activities in this database have been supplied by teachers who are keen to see them used freely by others.
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