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Sustainable assessment change: where are the program leaders starting from?
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Sustainable assessment change: where are the program leaders starting from?

Kylie Readman, Bill Allen and Deborah Heck
Authors and Presentations: Papers, and Extended Abstracts, pp.1-4
Australian Technology Network (ATN) Assessment Conference: Assessment: Sustainability, Dieversity and Innovation, 2010 (Sydney, Australia, 18-Nov-2010–19-Nov-2010)
University of Technology, Sydney
2010
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Abstract

Other Education curriculum renewal graduate attributes program leaders
This paper reports on the attitudes and beliefs of program leaders at a regional university as they led a curriculum and assessment renewal at program level. The renewal was driven by the introduction of a new set of graduate attributes. The research reported here represents the pilot stage of a university-wide project that sought to understand how program leaders saw their role, how they perceived their identity as change agents and how they understood the capacity of assessment to enhance students' engagement with the graduate attributes of a professional program. The aim of this pilot research was to gain deeper understanding of how to make changes to curriculum and assessment sustainable in the university context, to ensure that they have a life beyond the funded implementation period and become integrated into the university's teaching and learning practices. The researchers recognised the central 'gate-keeping' role of program leaders in this process, and therefore sought a deeper understanding of the factors that affect program leaders' approaches to curriculum and assessment change in higher education.

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