smarter learning
Professor Hamish Coates
[email protected]
www.acer.edu.au/highereducation
www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning
Pressures on higher education
• Cost and pricing
• Transparency and privatisation
• Diversification and stratification
• Curriculum and provision
• Students and academics
The smarter learning imperative
• Higher education strategic landscape is
changing, radically
• Emerging hybrid business models that
reconfigure core business: “New HE”
• New institutional ecosystems are emerging—
many in this time zone
• As getting-in gets easier, getting-out gets harder
• Engineering an engaged experience and
assessing learning outcomes are final frontiers
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For instance…
•Shrink wrapped tasks
•Collaborative item libraries
•Stand-alone tests
•Training academics
•Task review/benchmarking
•Process/data moderation
For instance…
•Student surveys
•Focus groups
•Activity data
•Retention
•Stakeholder surveys
Engaged learning experience
Assessing learning outcomes
Boosting capacity and data
Building assessment capacity
For leaders
• Auditing assessment strategies and resources
• Determining assessment priorities and needs
• Defining academic standards and performance indicators
For educators
• Learning how to write better assessment materials
• Interpreting assessment data to improve teaching
• Helping teachers shape feedback to students
• Certifying assessment capability
For administrators
• Planning assessment cycles
• Improving delivery mechanisms
• Optimising resources for assessment
Developing assessment materials
Developing materials
• Drafting and refining content frameworks with experts
• Producing high quality assessment materials and marking guides
• Validating materials with experts, stakeholders and students
Preparing systems
• Readying computer or paper delivery systems
• Setting up marking and verification systems
• Designing reports and feedback procedures
Deploying, marking and reporting
• Supporting deployment to students
• Psychometric analysis of assessment data
• Detailed reporting to students, teaching staff and institutions
Providing standardised tests
Selection and admissions
• Generic skills aptitude tests
• Discipline-specific aptitude tests
• Assessment of cognitive readiness for tertiary study
Diagnosis
• Measure cognitive skills of enrolling students
• Determine learning needs
• Establish English language proficiency
Outcomes assessment
• General professional skills + discipline skills + context
• Reports to students and institutions and/or systems
Global Graduate Passport®
General professional skills + discipline skills + context
Culturally and linguistically adapted to system contexts
Secure online delivery to your students
Detailed reports to students and institutions
Next moves
Implementing SESME
Deploying the Global Graduate Passport®
To keep in contact:
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