Participant questionnaire
After Standards Workshop
To provide After Standards with needed information and prepare you and your colleagues for the project, we have created this questionnaire. It will form the basis of a data repository that will assist you in the months ahead, serving both as a diagnostic tool for assessing your own institution and also as a quick and ready comparison with other institutions.
To get the most value from the April symposium, we require an understanding of the landscape in which your major is situated. We need you to fill out the attached forms, which gather and transmit data that will be used during the symposium to help you build a diagnostic curriculum mapping tool for history at your institution.
The data we require needs to be harvested from all of your course/subject guides by 01 April 2011. We appreciate this will take time, but this information is essential to the task of assessing the discipline as we prepare for - and try to influence - the compliance requirements of a national standards environment. You do not need to manipulate the raw data in any way; if all your course/subject guide materials exist electronically (published online in program handbook, for example), this task could be completed fairly easily by an administrative member of your department/school.
At most institutions today in Australia, history no longer exists in its own administrative unit (if it ever did in some places). When we use the term “department”, therefore, it can refer to either an administrative unit dedicated to the teaching of history (e.g., a School of History), or to the collective of historians who teach together in a larger multi-disciplinary department or school. For the purpose of this exercise, “program” can also be read as “degree” or sometimes “course” (e.g., the Bachelor of Arts). Finally, “Course”, indicates the subject, unit or paper in which a student is taught (e.g., HIST0001: Introduction to Australian History).
Thank you for your time and effort; we look forward to seeing you all in April.
Shawn Ross
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Interactive Resource
Learning Outcome and Assessment Worksheet
After Standards Workshop
The mapping of course Learning Outcomes (LOs), and their alignment with assessment tasks, are crucial ways in which we can demonstrate that our programs meet the History standards - or identify areas that need further development. Thus, LO and assessment information is critical for our stocktaking in advance of the workshop. The data will be utilised in the workshop to assist you in preparing your history major for a standards compliance / audit environment.
Filling in the form will take some time. If you already have this information in digital format (e.g., electronic course guides or course proposals), then we are happy to enter the information for you - submit what you have instead of completing this form. If you still operate in a paper-based environment we ask you to do the data entry.
In the form, each page represents a course. When you add a course, a new page will be generated. Within each course, you may add Learning Outcomes and assessments independently. If possible, align each assessment with a Learning Outcome (see below). You may press "Save" in Adobe Acrobat or Reader at any time to save the information you have entered. When you are finished, use the "Submit via Email" button at the bottom of this page. Please save a copy of this form for your records.
Thank you for your time and effort; we look forward to seeing you all in April.
Shawn Ross
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Interactive Resource
After Standards ALTC Priority Project Application
Project Application
A PDF of the application we submitted to the ALTC Priority Project award program. There have been some changes since this application was submitted, but it is the best statement of our purpose and goals.
Sean Brawley
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Document
ALTC History Standards Statement
History Standards
Learning and teaching academic standards for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities: History Standards Statement.
This document specifies and explains the proposed national standards for history.
ALTC
July 2010
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Document
Newsletter: Australian Learning and Teaching Academic Standards in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
History Standards
A newsletter discussing the background and nature of the national standards in history.
May 2010
English
After Standards Workshop 1 (UNSW 2011) Program
After Standards Workshop
The final version of the program for the Workshop held at UNSW from 27-29 April 2011.
Two versions of this document are attached, one with abstracts and one without.
Lisa Ford
23 Apri 2011
Shawn Ross
Sean Brawley
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After Standards Workshop 1 (UNSW 2011) Presentations
After Standards Workshop
PowerPoint presentations (in PDF) from the following sessions:
-Session 1.1: Introduction
-Session 1.2: Setting the Agenda
-Session 2.3: The Texas Experience
-Session 3.A1: Compliance
-Session 3.B1: Content and Skills
-Session 4.A2: Progression
-Session 4.B2: Assessment
More will be posted as they become available.
Sean Brawley
Jennifer Clark
Sarah Richardson
Alan Booth
Lendol Calder
Geoff Timmins
Paul Hyland
Mills Kelly
David Pace
Keith Erekson
29 May 2011
Shawn Ross
Lisa Ford
Chris Dixon
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Expert Project presentations
After Standards Workshop
PowerPoints presentations and supplemental documents (in PDF) of the following Expert Projects (Sessions 7-8):
-Graham Gibbs: Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment (TESTA)
-Lendol Calder: The Moral of the Story, a History SoTL Project
More will be posted as they become available.
Graham Gibbs
29 May 2011
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Workshop Session Notes
After Standards Workshop
Session notes (PDF) from the following sessions:
-Session 3-B1 Content and Skills
-Session 4-B2 Assessment
-Session 5-A3 Negotiating Bureaucracy
-Session 5-B3 Assessing Learning
-Session 5-B3 Assessing Learning - Handout
-Session 11 Observations
More will be posted as they become available.
Sean Brawley
Shawn Ross
Chris Dixon
Jennifer Clark
02 June 2010
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TEQSA Teaching and Learning Standards Discussion Paper
History Standards
TEQSA
The June 2011 Discussion Paper circulated by TEQSA for comment.
TEQSA
06/2011
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