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Session A - H6-09
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Assessing graduate attributes and their students
Alex Radloff, CQU
Barbara de la Harpe, RMIT
Helen Dalton, UNSW
Jan Thomas, Murdoch
Anne Lawson, CQU
engaging academic staff
Introduction Quick quiz Progress to date What is valued? Most significant factor
All universities have a list of graduate attributes
can you recite the list?
There is a link between graduate attributes and employability
can you provide evidence?
All universities are doing things to develop graduate attributes
can you give an example?
How far do you think universities have got with ensuring graduates
have well developed graduate attributes?
…the overall picture in Higher Education systems around the world is one of patchy implementation and uptake of graduate attribute initiatives
Barrie, 2006, p. 218
What do you think is the most significant
factor in ensuring graduate attributes are integrated into the curriculum?
Academics are experts in their field of study
Assessment is the litmus test
Assessment reveals what
is really
valued
Elephant in the room
…the beliefs that academic staff hold regarding graduate attributes has a major impact on their engagement in any institutional attempts to embed graduate attributes in the curriculum — especially when changes are initiated from the ‘top down’
Gentle nudge
Big push
What else is required?
Institutional commitment to good teaching
Supportive context Leadership
and most importantly
open hearts and minds