Curriculum GUIDELINES - Ninth Guideline
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IN PLACE A MECHANISM FOR MONITORING PROCEDURES THROUGH STUDENT FEEDBACK AND
ASSESSMENT.
It is important that feedback on the courses not only concentrates on the final learning outcomes but also on the whole learning process. Thus, learning could become more productive and efficient. There should be relevant feedback through assessment procedures that enable students to reflect on their individual learning process. Assessment procedures should take into account the nature of adult/cultural learning styles and preferences, and also accredit, for instance, the production of partial results.
Motivation:
Clear and easy to understand assessment procedures encourage autonomous learning, provide students with an opportunity to try out different strategies and approaches, increase their self-confidence, help to develop skills and competences, and sustain motivation.
Proposed actions:
- There should be individual counselling.
- Activities should enable teachers to mediate the learning process.
- Students should have the opportunity to try out different learning strategies and to discover their favourite learning strategies in various situations.
- Learning outcomes should be related to the learning process.
- There should be self-evaluation.
- Teachers should have adequate instruments to assess and evaluate the learning process.
- As a tool for information retrieval questionnaires are very useful. Questionnaires enable the students both to be critical on their performance and to articulate their own achievements. At the same time, questionnaires can provide a basis for teachers on which they can improve their teaching concepts.
