Subject-level quality assurance in computing: experiences from three national perspectives.
This paper examines some aspects of the Quality Assurance processes in Computing departments in three European universities. We first examine the operation of a quality assurance activity in the School of Computer Science in Iceland. The next case is an example from Sweden and finally we present a c...
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ftrobertguniv:oai:rgu-repository.worktribe.com:246618 2023-05-15T16:49:54+02:00 Subject-level quality assurance in computing: experiences from three national perspectives. McDermott, Roger Daniels, Mats 2014-10-22 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2222 https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044182 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/file/246618/1/MCDERMOTT%202014%20Subject-Level%20Quality%20Assurance unknown Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2222 doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044182 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/file/246618/1/MCDERMOTT%202014%20Subject-Level%20Quality%20Assurance 0190-5848 10.1109/FIE.2014.7044182 openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Outcomebased quality assurance Qualifications framework Learning outcomes Competence based assessment Computing Education Conference Proceeding acceptedVersion 2014 ftrobertguniv https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044182 2023-03-26T20:19:30Z This paper examines some aspects of the Quality Assurance processes in Computing departments in three European universities. We first examine the operation of a quality assurance activity in the School of Computer Science in Iceland. The next case is an example from Sweden and finally we present a case from the United Kingdom. In each case, we examine the motivation for the outcome-based assurance methodologies that predominate in countries that are engaged in the Bologna Process in terms of the use of competence-based assessment. We compare the application of these processes to departmental review, focusing on the aims and objectives, who controls the process, the areas covered, the methodology and the use to which the information is put. We discuss some of the implications for teaching when different quality assurance processes are used and finally, we make some observations about the relatively sparse literature on Computing Education subject-specific quality assurance. Conference Object Iceland OpenAIR@RGU (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings 1 8 |
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This paper examines some aspects of the Quality Assurance processes in Computing departments in three European universities. We first examine the operation of a quality assurance activity in the School of Computer Science in Iceland. The next case is an example from Sweden and finally we present a case from the United Kingdom. In each case, we examine the motivation for the outcome-based assurance methodologies that predominate in countries that are engaged in the Bologna Process in terms of the use of competence-based assessment. We compare the application of these processes to departmental review, focusing on the aims and objectives, who controls the process, the areas covered, the methodology and the use to which the information is put. We discuss some of the implications for teaching when different quality assurance processes are used and finally, we make some observations about the relatively sparse literature on Computing Education subject-specific quality assurance. |
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Subject-level quality assurance in computing: experiences from three national perspectives. |
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