Learning and Teaching
Explain the difference between a didactic and socratic teaching method?
Didactic is a master:student approach, "the student is a vessel into which knowledge is poured", socratic is about facilitation and group consensus, "Challenging the student with questions about their own beliefs and experiences"
In 2019 which state will change its entry ranking system?
QLD
Queensland will adopt the ATAR instead of the OP for students who commence Year 11 in 2019 and beyond.
Name the current IRAU universities
Charles Darwin University, James Cook University, Griffith University, La Trobe University, Flinders University, Murdoch University, and Western Sydney University
What is the AQF
Australia‘s national policy for regulated qualifications. The AQF encompasses higher education, vocational education and training and school education. It provides for national recognition and a consistent understanding of what defines each qualification type.
Name 5 different risk factors commonly associated with Attrition
ATSI, Low Socio* , Disability, International, FIF, Load, NESB, Mature age, Part time
What is one of the key differentiators of CBE over traditional teaching models?
CBE is Learner Centred (Rather than time based), individualized, mastery and performance based (as apposed to summative), self paced.
What are pathways?
Allow students to move through Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualification levels with full or partial recognition for the completed course of study and/or learning outcomes they already have
What are graduate Attributes
Generic learning outcomes that refer to transferable, non-discipline specific skills that a
graduate may achieve through learning that have application in study, work and life context
What is CRICOS
The Commonwealth Register of Institution and Courses of Overseas students (CRICOS) is the register prescribed under section 14A of the ESOS Act. It is a searchable database, run by the Australian Government, which lists all Australian education providers (and their courses) for people studying in Australia on student visas
Which UK based Professional Development program has gained a significant amount of traction in Au
HEA Fellowship: In Australia, the scheme was originally sponsored through ANU in 2014 and have recently celebrated achieving 500 fellows at ANU (March 2019) and say that over 20 Australian Unis are now part of the scheme . Some unis are aligning their grad cert to the UKPS e.g. Griffith
What is micro credentialling?
A means of certifying attainment of smaller and more specific elements of learning than are attested to by a degree
What is the difference between the "normal attrition" measure and the "adjusted attrition" value that institutions report on?
normal attrition rate is higher as it includes students who change course and/or institution; whereas the adjusted attrition rate only counts students as withdrawing if they leave higher education
In 2007 the Queensland government added a year of preparatory school what impact will this have in 2020?
It is expected there will be fewer OP-eligible students in 2020 because of the introduction of the Prep year in 2007, which meant some children who were due to go to Year 1 went to Prep instead.
"This means that students who would have been choosing a university for 2020 will instead be completing Year 12 as a result of the additional compulsory year of education," the report reads.
Define the difference between AQSA and TEQSA
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) are Australia’s national tertiary education (post-school education) regulators. Through regulation, both ASQA and TEQSA maintain the standards for accredited tertiary qualifications and course providers in Australia:
For ASQA, these are the ‘Standards for Registered Trading Organisations (RTOs) 2015’ (these replaced the ‘Standards for NVR RTOs 2012)
For TEQSA, these are the ‘Higher Education Standards Framework 2015’ (these replaced the Higher Education Standards Framework 2011)
Which government Framework discusses requirements around Academic Misconduct
HES Framework
" - - to take action to mitigate foreseeable risks to academic and research integrity - - "
What is Androgogy?
Similar to pedagogy, andragogy is about adult learning (pedagogy is child learning), andragogy is focuses on involving learners, bringing in their experiences, being relevant and problem centred.
Institutions measure 3 key things around Student Numbers and report these to the Government
Retention, Completion and Progression
What is the single biggest source of income for Universities
The Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS). It is allocated on the basis of the number of full-time equivalent domestic students in Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs).
Whats the difference between EFTSL and FTE
EFTSL: One Equivalent Full-Time Study Load. This is the measure of the study load, for a year, of a single student undertaking a course of study on the fulltime basis
FTE: Staff Fulltime equivalence, as defined on the Department of Education and Training's HEIMS-HELPGlossary
What percentage of University students have a (known) disability
5.8% - 6%
What is Performance Adjacent Learning?
Performance-adjacent learning empowers 'students' to learn in the moment of need. L&D professionals need to rethink how they measure learning success, since traditional “time-spent” metrics can be arbitrary
How do Institutions calculate "Student completion rates"
The rate of completion for a cohort of students completing in minimum time Completion rates are defined as the number of completions of students in a course as a proportion of the total number of students who commenced in a course in a given year. For a three year bachelor degree for students undertaking the course full-time the calculation would be:
• number of completing students in year N+3 (2010)/Base students in Year N (2008)
• where based students are the number of students commencing a course in 2008
Administration of the Australian Awards for University Teaching and the Office for Learning and Teaching digital repository was recetnly transferred to which group?
Universities Australia
Who is the Federal Education Minister
Dan Tehan
Announced the National Regional, Rural and Remote Education initiative in November 2018
Department of Education statistics categorise students with disability by six classifications
Hearing, learning, mobility, vision, medical, and other (The ‘other’ category for disability classification often includes broad disability types such as mental illnesses
and autism spectrum disorders)