Teaching and Learning to achieve Learning Outcomes
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Teaching and Learning to achieve Learning Outcomes
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Preparing & Developing Graduates
Graduate Attributes are the qualities, skills & understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution.
These attributes include, but go beyond, the disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge that has traditionally formed the core of most university courses.
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My key question in designing any Course or Programme
What kind of teacher, biochemist, sociologist, historian are you trying to prepare for- the 21st century, the workplace, for citizenship, for change?
Take 5 minutes to jot down a few notes. Share your thoughts with a colleague.
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Graduate Attributes will be:
Subject specific and generic; Learning Outcomes must be subject specific and generic
QAA encouraged benchmarking groups to focus on attributes in formulating subject benchmark statements. Outputs a high priority.
In the UK largely located in subject benchmark statements
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Profile of Attributes
• Knowledge, skills, abilities & personal • Driven by employers’ demands?• Is the list getting longer?• Are attributes communicated to all staff &
students? How?• What learning, teaching & assessment
experiences enable students to develop & demonstrate the attributes?
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Examples of AttributesGraduates should demonstrate evidence, as appropriate to their disciplines, that they can:
1. Apply discipline knowledge, principles & concepts
2. Think critically, creatively & reflectively;3. Access, evaluate & synthesise
information;4. Communicate effectively;
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Continued
5 Use technologies appropriately
6 Utilise lifelong learning skills
7 Recognise & apply international perspectives;
8 Demonstrate cultural awareness & understanding
9 Apply professional skills
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Employers want graduates with a range of personal attributes:
• Intellect- analysis, critique,synthesis, problem solving
• Knowledge-basic principles of a subject discipline
• Willingness to learn, continue to learn• Flexibility & adaptability• Self-Regulatory Skills such as time
keeping, ability to deal with stress
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Continued
• Self-motivation, resilience, tenacity, determination
• Self-assurance, self-confidence, self-direction, self-promotion
• Creativity• Interactive attributes-interpersonal skills
team working• Social skills
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How do Graduate Characteristics relate to programs, levels and learning
outcomes?
National Qualifications Framework for HE in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Pages 15 to 27
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How do graduate attributes relate to learning outcomes?
Example of a learning outcome at final year Hons Degree
At the end of the module (course) the student is expected to be able to:
• Describe & explain the function of the basic devices of optoelectronics; optical fibres; liquid crystal displays; bipolar & surface field effect transistors & MOS light emitting diodes
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ContinuedFinal Year Bachelor of Arts in English:
At the end of the module (course), the learner is expected to be able to:
• Demonstrate detailed understanding of the influences of the historical & social context within which the chosen text is set, both from the study of the text itself & from the study of other contemporary literature
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Continued
Bachelor of Education Second Year of Degree
At the end of the module (course) the learner will be expected to be able to:
• Explain the more common reasons for difficult behaviour in primary school children in class situations, indicating standard techniques for ameliorating that behaviour
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How to write the attribute
• The graduate will be able to......
• Clear, concise, demonstrable, action verbs
• Explicit & specific about whether it is implicit in the entire curriculum or a part of the curriculum, i.e. generic or subject specific
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Definition of Learning
It is a relatively permanent change in our potential for performance as a result of our past interaction with the environment; a change in observable behaviour.
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Different Types of Learning require different types of Teaching and Facilitation
This idea is at the centre of NCAAA documentation
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NCAAA Documentation focuses upon 4 Domains & specifies conditions for learning
in each of the domains
• Knowledge
• Cognitive Skills
• Interpersonal Skills and Responsibilities
• Communication IT & Numerical
• Psychomotor Skills. Where applicable
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What is the purpose of the Learning?
• Adding to your existing knowledge?• Transforming your existing knowledge?• Revising your existing knowledge?• Accumulation of facts or reorganising
underlying schemata?
Add some purposes to this list…….
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Historical Overview: Behaviourism
• Stimulus(environment)-response(organism)-reward
• Stimulus=inputs:learned behaviour=outputs
• What they do, rather than think• Passive rather than active• Thorndike, Pavlov, Watson• Guthrie
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Skinner
• Pigeons!• Organism operating on the environment• Secure particular consequences• Search for rewards, following a
response• Reinforcers-behaviours can be shaped
by control of rewards
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Cognition 1• Focus on meaning, the development of
ability to demonstrate understanding of what has been learnt
• Focus on thinking: stimulus-thinking response
• Focus on perception, memory, attention, concept formation, pattern formation
• Process which transforms, reduces, extends, stores, recovers &uses
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Cognition 2
• A change in the way we see the environment
• Transact with environment- dynamic• Perception-select cues, draw inferences,
to make sense of experience• Dewey,Bruner,Piaget, Ausubel,Koffka,
Kohler• Howard Gardner “Multiple Intelligences”
Enjoy listening to this music.
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Howard Gardner
How do you teach to learner’s multiple intelligences? Are you reaching all seven categories?
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Ausubel (1968)
• The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
• How important do you consider this to be?• Pre-existing knowledge, anchoring
concepts, advance organisers, structuring
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Norman(1977)
• Tasks related to demand on learner• Accretion - add to existing knowledge• fine-tuning: refine knowledge• restructuring-extend or alter conceptions
Which do you think is the hardest to achieve?
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Humanism
• People are human beings, not human doings
• thoughts, feelings, experiences, attitudes;
• personal meaning of experience• self-actualisation;• Desires to do something & goals;
“Human nature is essentially positive, productive& growth oriented. It is essentially trustworthy”
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Abraham Maslow: Hierarchy of Needs
• Self Actualisation• Aesthetic Needs• Cognitive Needs• Esteem Needs• Love& belongingness• Safety Needs• Physiological needs
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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
• Realness or Genuineness in the facilitator of learning
• Prizing, Acceptance, Trust
• Empathic understanding
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Studies of Student Learning
Marton 1974
Hounsell & Entwistle 1984
Pask 1976
Entwistle & Ramsden 1983
Biggs 1987
Entwistle 1986
Entwistle & Tait 2003
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Meaning Approach
• Deep approach
• Use of evidence
• Relating ideas
• Intrinsic motivation
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Reproducing Orientation
• Surface approach
• Syllabus-boundness
• Fear of failure
• Improvidence
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Strategic Orientation
• Strategic approach
• Extrinsic motivation
• Achievement motivation
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Non-academic Orientation
• Disorganised study methods
• Negative attitudes
• Globetrotting
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Effective Learning is:
• Active• Relevant• Safe• Objectives
• Needs Arson
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Why Active learning?
• Linked to deep approach • Student actively engaged with the content• Student actively engaged with the process• Student actively engaged with the
outcome• Not a passive observer• Combat too much teacher talk, note
research; avoid micro sleep, enhance motivation, attention, memory
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What Is Active Learning?“Active learning implies above all that whatever specific physical activities are involved, students are encouraged to engage with the content and to take responsibility for their own learning. They have to think about it for themselves, be alert and independently critical, and care about the quality of their own emerging understanding.”
Entwistle1992, Enabling Active Learning in Higher Education, UCOSDA
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Matching teaching, learning & assessment
strategies to learning outcomes
Wide repertoire to draw upon:
Developments • Small group work in large classes• Peer learning, peer tutoring, peer assessment, peer
support• Collaborative learning• Portfolio based learning• Work based learning• Fieldwork• Project based work
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Large number of examples of effective practice on the Higher Education Academy website,
The Australian equivalent, the Carrick Institute
in Ireland , All- Ireland Society for Higher Education
Many Australian, Irish, South African and UK universities have centres for educational development which have good practice guidelines and examples of innovative approaches
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Key Questions
• How can we help our students to learn effectively/successfully?
• What prohibits learning?• Why do we learn?• Where do we learn effectively?• What do we learn?• What are the implications of this study of
learning for your teaching, assessment, policy making?
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How will Teaching, Learning & Assessment be Evaluated for Quality Assurance &
Enhancement?
Range of mechanisms suggested in NCAAA documentation
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Some references for getting started
Fry,H Ketteridge,S & Marshall, S(2008) A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Kogan Page, London. Up to date & A number of relevant chapters on learning
Ramsden, P(1992) Learning to Teach in Higher Education, Routledge, London. Still much valuable discussion of student learning, despite date
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Your follow up to the Session
• Observe and talk to a couple of your students or colleagues about how they approach a new learning task. What do they say helps them to learn? Are there implications for you as a Policymaker/ Senior Manager/Teacher arising from their comments?
• Find out about the research on teacher/tutor talk. What does it say? How will this impact upon your practice?