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Charlton, Nicholas; Weir, Katie; Newsham-West, Richard – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
It is incumbent upon universities to deliver quality degree programs that produce employable graduates with discipline-specific knowledge and a well-developed set of generic skills known as graduate attributes. To safeguard the achievement of these outcomes, this paper argues for a holistic, longitudinal approach to degree planning known as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Educational Policy
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McCubbin, Amanda; Hammer, Sara; Ayriss, Peter – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Benchmarking is a formalised evaluation process by which a university can measure the standard of their policies, processes, programmes or strategies through comparison with other universities. Currently, there is a paucity of research that focuses on the documentation associated with external benchmarking undertaken by Australian universities.…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Universities
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2020
As part of its regulatory roles, the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is required to assess evidence of 'scholarship' that is put forward by providers, whether evidence of scholarship by individuals, such as teaching staff within the provider, or for the provider as a whole. TEQSA is seeking to review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Thomas, Matthew A. M.; Banki, Susan – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
In addition to its influences across economic, geopolitical, and social spheres, globalization has given rise to the notion of a 'global citizen' who is able to understand a shifting and more internationalized world while moving fluidly through it. Education has been trumpeted as the means to achieve this globally-aware citizenry, leading to an…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Teacher Education Programs
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Leanne Fried; Christine Lovering; Sarah Falconer; Jacinta Francis; Robyn Johnston; Karen Lombardi; Kevin Runions; Karen Forde; Naomi Crosby; Lilly Blue – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2023
Background: Mental health concerns prevent positive well-being and are key challenges for Australian children and young people. Arts organisations play a role in enhancing the positive mental health of children and young people. This paper describes the involvement of young people and their parents in the development of a resource for arts…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Resources, Well Being, Mental Health
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Cahill, Helen; Kern, Margaret L.; Dadvand, Babak; Cruickshank, Emlyn Walter; Midford, Richard; Smith, Catherine; Farrelly, Anne; Oades, Lindsay – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
Evaluation studies often use stand-alone and summative assessment strategies to examine the impacts of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Gender-based Violence (GBV) prevention education programs. However, implementation research is yet to offer an integrative framework that can be used to investigate the implementation drivers that lead to…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Summative Evaluation, Violence
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Anwar-McHenry, Julia; Donovan, Robert John; Nicholas, Amberlee; Kerrigan, Simone; Francas, Stephanie; Phan, Tina – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: Mentally Healthy WA developed and implemented the Mentally Healthy Schools Framework in 2010 in response to demand from schools wanting to promote the community-based Act-Belong-Commit mental health promotion message within a school setting. Schools are an important setting for mental health promotion, therefore, the Framework encourages…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Sellar, Sam – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This paper examines the development of data infrastructure in Australian schooling with a specific focus on interoperability standards that help to make new markets for education data. The conceptual framework combines insights from studies of infrastructure, economic markets and digital data. The case of the Australian National Schools…
Descriptors: Standards, Guidelines, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Bajada, Christopher; Kandlbinder, Peter; Trayler, Rowan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Systematic changes to higher education curriculum typically occur within the extended timeframes of formal curriculum review processes. Programmes need to be reviewed periodically for internal and external accountability or to determine whether the curriculum has lost its coherence due to the accumulative effect of continual small-scale changes.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2016
The third ACECQA Occasional Paper examines activities to promote consistency and efficiency in the implementation and administration of the National Quality Framework (NQF). Striving for consistency and efficiency is a collaborative effort between the eight state and territory regulatory authorities, the Australian Government and ACECQA. This…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Guidelines, Program Administration, Child Care
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Prodonovich, Samuel; Perry, Laura B.; Taggart, Andrew – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
This paper reviews research and theory relating to aspirations for higher education as a cultural capacity. Understanding the social and cultural dimensions of aspirations for higher education is important as they are increasingly becoming part of social commentary and more recently educational policy, research and practice. This paper synthesises…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Cultural Influences, Social Influences
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Heggart, Keith – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
Previous scholarship has outlined possible models of civics education but have neglected to provide frameworks for evaluation of the way such educative programs contribute to ongoing active citizenship amongst the participants. This paper explicates a framework that can be used to analyse how effectively programs are developing active citizenship…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Citizenship, Civics, Citizen Participation
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Wang, Rex; Scown, Phil; Urquhart, Cathy; Hardman, Julie – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
Facebook is a frequently used Computer Mediated Environment (CME) for students and others to build social connections, with identities and deposited self-expression. Its widespread use makes it appropriate for consideration as an educational tool; though one that does not yet have clear guidelines for use. Whether a social networking site can be…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Eckert, James; Luqmani, Mushtaq; Newell, Stephen; Quraeshi, Zahir; Wagner, Bret – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
Most business schools in the U.S. are employing various initiatives to "internationalize" their curriculum in order to prepare students to participate more effectively in a globally interconnected business world. An integral part of these initiatives is to encourage more students to participate in study abroad programs. Though it maybe…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, International Trade, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning
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Hulett, Heather; Corbin, Jenny; Karasmanis, Sharon; Robertson, Tracy; Salisbury, Fiona; Peseta, Tai – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013
La Trobe University Library has embarked on an institution-wide project with the objective of enabling students to engage with scholarly and credible information from the first year. This initiative by the library is in response to La Trobe curriculum reform. In particular, it aligns information literacy with the inquiry/research graduate…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Guidelines, Academic Libraries, Program Effectiveness
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