Creating Quality Assurance in Curriculum: Theory and Practice at a Canadian Community College
Titel:
Creating Quality Assurance in Curriculum: Theory and Practice at a Canadian Community College
Auteur:
MacAskill, Pamela Goho, James Richard, Robert Anderson, Kirsten Stuhldreier, Michael
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 32 (2008) nr. 12 pagina's 939-958
Jaar:
2008-12
Inhoud:
Quality Assurance in Curriculum is a customized solution to the problems of assuring curricular quality in a dynamic community college environment. It was designed by Red River College, a large, comprehensive community college in Western Canada, to address academic cross-jurisdictional issues in establishing and verifying curriculum. It is a system based on current theory in educational quality, and it uses a three-stage methodology incorporating a variety of survey, planning, and consultation techniques. Benchmarked data figure prominently in assuring academic program curricular conformance is measured according to accepted college mission and accepted standards. Initiated in 2000, each stage of the Quality Assurance in Curriculum strategy has moved from initial concept to preliminary trials through acceptance to full implementation across all academic faculties of the community college.