Quality Assurance and ECTS at HEI in Serbia
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Quality Assurance Quality Assurance and ECTS at HEI in and ECTS at HEI in
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Quality Assurance Quality Assurance and ECTS at HEI in and ECTS at HEI in
SerbiaSerbiaProf. dr Vojin RakiProf. dr Vojin Rakićć
(BK University, Belgrade)(BK University, Belgrade)
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Quality Assurance
• “Quality assurance is everything in higher education”
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Essential
• Relation with allocation of credits
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Allocation of credits• To all types of study programs, irrespective of
their length
• To all three cycles
• To courses, research/theses etc.
• To courses that are or are not part of learner’s full cycle study program
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Based on...• ...a realistic estimation of the student
workload required for the average student to achieve the learning objectives
• ...a total number of 60 credits for one academic year
• ...a regular gathering and analysis of bottom-up information on actual student workload
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NOT based on...
• ... merely formal criteria (e.g., hours of lectures or exercices alone)
• ... status of course (“core and non-core subjects”, introductory or advanced courses) or status of teacher
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ECTS grading scale and QA
• Grading is RELATIVE
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ECTS grading scale and QA
• Based on the rank of a student in a given assessment, i.e. how (s)he performed RELATIVE to other students
• Based on classification of students into broad groups that makes the interpretation of ranking possible
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Passing grades – five subgroups
• A: the best 10%
• B: the next 25%
• C: the next 30%
• D: the next 25%
• E: the next 10%
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Failing grades – two subgroups
• FX: some further work required before credits can be awarded
• F: considerable further work required
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Reason for subgroups of specific size?
• The relativity of grading
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Suggestion to teachers
• To assign grades after a good insight into the entire student cohort
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For that, it is useful to…
• Grade multiple student activities (class-participation, essays, mid-term exams, final exams etc.)
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Another important suggestion to teachers
• To state grading criteria in advance AND to apply them!
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Important• Size of cohort (suggested size of cohort
with passing grades is more than 30 students / if not, distribution of marks over a period covering more years is a possibility)
• Relationship as close as possible to one-to-one between institution`s own marks and ECTS grading scale
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Institutionalization of QA at private universities in
Serbia
• Vice-Rectors for QA
• Committees for QA at university level and faculty level
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Institutionalization of ECTS at Private Universities in Serbia –
Case: BK University Principles (1)
• Implementation of ECTS at BK University (first private university in Serbia) started in 2005
• Central Committee was formed at University level with the duty to establish criteria, harmonize standards and to set the dynamics of the implementation process
• ECTS coordinators were appointed at faculty level
• ECTS implemented at all study levels (including core subjects and electives).
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ECTS allocation (2)• ECTS credits appointed to subjects based
on student workload• In calculating student workload, all
activities foreseen by the curriculum taken into consideration, including time spent on lectures, as well as all other student activities (individual work, preparation for practical work, tests, essay writing, etc.), but students achieve credits only by passing the exam
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Modularization of study programs (3)
• Modularization of all study programs is conducted
• Key principle - modularization should be based on study outcomes being grouped and equally distributed within modules
• Installment of the system of combining modules within different study programs is foreseen in future planes.
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ESCT system utilization (4)
• Utilization of ECTS as system for credit accumulation (student collects credits until the moment (s)he achieves a sufficient number of credits to obtain a certain professional degree)
• Utilization of ECTS as system for credit transfer (student can collect credits at some other institution and than transfer them to the home institution) is foreseen.
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“ECTS Assurance” (5)
• Special committees formed for making sure credits are allocated in accordance with ECTS principles
• Regular evaluations foreseen in future plans
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Problem
• In Serbia, faculties are “legal subjects”
• Implications for HER