Assessing the Relevance of Higher Education Courses

Autor/inn/en	Gomez, Pedro; Gonzalez, Maria Jose; Gil, Francisco; Lupianez, Jose Luiz; Moreno, Maria Francisco; Rico, Luis; Romero, Isabel
Titel	Assessing the Relevance of Higher Education Courses
Quelle	In: Evaluation and Program Planning, 30 (2007) 2, S.149-160 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0149-7189
DOI	10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2007.01.005
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Methods Courses; Teacher Education Programs; Program Effectiveness; Mathematics Education; Relevance (Education); College Instruction; Foreign Countries; Alignment (Education); Educational Policy; Program Evaluation; Course Evaluation; Course Descriptions; Competency Based Education; Evaluation Criteria; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Methodisch-didaktische Anleitung; Mathematische Bildung; Relevance; Relevanz; Hochschullehre; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Kursstrukturplan; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Spanien
Abstract	The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program's competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the relevance of a course. Using information from the course syllabus (objectives, contents and assessment scheme), our instrument produces indicators for characterizing the syllabus in terms of a competence list and for assessing its coherence. Because assessment involves quality, the results obtained can also be used to revise and improve the course syllabus. We illustrate this process with an example of a methods course from a mathematics teacher education program at a Spanish university. (Contains 17 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10