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Tuning Educational Structures in Europe

J. González, R. Wagenaar
01 Jan 2003-pp 70-96
Abstract: The Bologna Declaration The Bologna Declaration of June 1999 calls for the establishment by 2010 of a coherent, compatible and competitive European Higher Educatio n Area, attractive for European students and for students and scholars from other c ontinents. The European Education Ministers identified six action lines in Bologna an d they have added three more in Prague in May 2001 and one more in Berlin in September 2003:

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Tuning Educational
Structures in Europe
Tuning Educational
Structures in Europe
Informe Final
Fase Uno
Editado por
Julia González
Robert Wagenaar
2003
Universidad de Universidad de
Deusto Groningen
El Proyecto Tuning fue financiado por la Comisión
Europea en el marco del Programa Socrates.
Esta publicación refleja los puntos de vista solo de los
autores, y la Comisión Europea no puede asumir res-
ponsabilidades por ningún uso que se haga de la infor-
mación contenida en el presente libro.
Los editores quieren expresar su gratitud a los Asistentes
del Proyecto Tuning Robert Alcock, Pablo Beneitone, Almu-
dena Garrido e Ingrid van der Meer por su dedicación y
contribución significativa al proyecto. Particularmente,
quieren agradecer a Pablo Beneitone por la coordinación
de la edición de la presente versión en castellano.
Ninguna parte de esta publicación, incluido el diseño
de la cubierta, puede ser reproducida, almacenada o
transmitida en manera alguna ni por ningún medio, ya
sea eléctrico, químico, mecánico, óptico, de grabación
o de fotocopia, sin permiso previo del editor.
Publicación impresa en papel ecológico
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Apartado 1 - 48080 Bilbao
ISBN: 84-7485-892-5 (obra completa)
ISBN: 84-7485-893-3
Depósito legal: BI - 1.862-03
Impreso en España/Printed in Spain
Fotocomposición: IPAR, S. Coop. - Bilbao
Imprime: RGM, S.A.
Lista de Participantes
Coordinadores Generales
Julia González - Universidad de Deusto (ES)
Robert Wagenaar - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL)
Miembros del Comité de Gestión y de Dirección
Expertos en Educación Superior
Chantal Zoller - Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
Volker Gehmlich - Fachhochschule Osnabrück (DE)
Maria Sticchi-Damiani - Consejero ECTS (IT)
Ann Katherine Isaacs - Università degli Studi di Pisa (IT)
Estela Pereira - Universidade de Aveiro (PT)
Stephen Adam - University of Westminster (UK)
Coordinadores de Area Temática
Peder Ostergaard —Coordinador del Area de Administración y Di-
rección de Empresas— Aarhus School of Business (DK)
Lars Gunnarsson —Coordinador del Area de Ciencias de la Educa-
ción— Göteborg University (SE)
Paul D. Ryan —Coordinador del Area de Geología— National Uni-
versity of Galway (IE)
Jean-Luc Lamboley —Coordinador del Area de Historia— Université
Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, (FR)
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Importance of university teacher behaviour in the faculty of health science

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Soledad García Gómez de las Heras, Pedro Gil Madrona, Valentine Hernandez Barrera, Ana López de Andrés, Pilar Garrido 
01 Jan 2017-Australasian Medical Journal
TL;DR: Which attitudes are the most valued by students of the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain) studying for degrees in the health sciences program are revealed to identify teaching strategies that could improve the minimum academic requirements of the students.
Abstract: Background We describe the results from the questionnaire of Tuncel concerning the behaviour of university teachers, since university students believe they have influenced their academic achievement. Aims The objective of this study was to reveal which behaviours of university teachers were most appreciated by the students in the first year of the studies taught at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (Degrees in Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Dentistry, Psychology and Occupational Therapy). Methods 540 first-year students from the Health Sciences degree participated. An exploratory factor analysis of the items was performed and the internal consistency was studied using Cronbach’s alpha. Results Students placed the most importance on the following areas: “Emotional aptitude of the university teacher”, “University teacher-student interaction”, “Achievement of teaching objectives”, “Connection between the teaching of theory and practical components”, “Organization and planning of teaching” and “Correct students and providing them with information on their progress and evolution”. It should be noted that affective factors and the relationship and close interaction with students were the areas most demanded and valued by the students. Conclusion Making the teaching process more effective is an important goal of educational research. But few researchers take into account the point of view of the students and are primarily involved in determining the behaviour of university teachers. Therefore our aim in this study was to find out their opinions. We wanted to know which attitudes are the most valued by students of the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain) studying for degrees in the health sciences program. Once identified, we will be able to use this information to identify teaching strategies that could improve the minimum academic requirements of the

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Tracing Assessment Practice as Reflected in "Assessment Update." NILOA Occasional Paper #28.

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Trudy W. Banta, Peter T. Ewell, Cynthia A. Cogswell
01 Oct 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a Tracing Assessment Practice as Reflected in Assessment Update (TAPA) as a part of the assessment of assessment practice in assessment update.
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Journal Article•DOI•
Establishing Modern Bachelor-level Studies in Computer Science based on Higher Education Standard in Ukraine

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Kovaliuk Tetiana, Kobets Nataliya
01 Mar 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the Computer Science standard for Bachelor's Degree Programs in Ukraine in the context of harmonizing its content with world practice and developed a competency-based model for the bachelors training in computer science.
Abstract: The work considers the Computer Science standard for Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Ukraine in the context of harmonizing its content with world practice. The CS standard defines the subject area description, which includes the object of activity, goals and objectives of training, the theoretical content of the domain, teaching methods and technologies. The competency-based model for the bachelors training in computer science is described, This model includes generic and subject specific competencies, learning outcomes. Relation generic competencies of CS educational standard and descriptors of Ukrainian NQF is shown. The methodology for developing the educational standard of the Bachelor of Computer Science is based on the systematization of the IT industry requirements to the competencies of alumnus. CS standard is approved by the Ministries of Education and Science of Ukraine and is mandatory for implementation in the educational practice of all universities.

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Journal Article•DOI•
Teacher Education Programmes at Alexandria University with reference to Tuning Methodology

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Alsaeed Alshamy1•
Alexandria University1
31 May 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the views of different stakeholders (academic, students, graduates, and employers) who relate to three faculties in charge of Teacher Education at Alexandria University, focusing on the generic competences and the key subject-specific competences which future teachers should be acquainted with.
Abstract: The study aims at using the outcomes of Tuning Africa Project — I to propose implications for policy and practice for enhancing the quality of Teacher Education Programmes in Egyptian higher education. It investigates the views of different stakeholders — academics, students, graduates and employers — who relate to three faculties in charge of Teacher Education at Alexandria University. The study focuses on the generic competences and the key subject-specific competences which future teachers should be acquainted with. The data have been collected through questionnaires administered to 384 participants and through semi-structured interviews with 10 academics. The main findings show that, across all different stakeholders, there are significant gaps for both generic and subject-specific competences between what is deemed important and what is deemed as the level of achievement at Alexandria University. The average ranking for both generic and subject-specific competences was 3.75 in terms of importance but only 2.54 in terms of achievement. This is an indication that effort and intentional strategies needed to be put in place to minimize the gaps of the relevant Teacher Education Programmes. This calls for a paradigm shift from input and staff-centered programmes to output and student oriented ones. In order to achieve such a paradigm shift, several actions concerning policy and practice should be promoted. Among them, the study proposes changing the regulations of existing programmes; revising programmes in order to allow inclusion of the Tuning determined generic and subject-specific competences. The study further proposes raising awareness about the importance of competence-based learning among academics, students, graduates, employers and the society at large as well as involving all stakeholders in the process of curriculum design and quality enhancement. All these are potential in promoting capacity building and training for academics who are equipped to incorporate new competences in the existing programmes/courses. Such academics will be able to initiate new courses with commonly agreed structures; they will be able to incorporate the needed competences in such a way that comparability and equivalence of learning outcomes between Alexandria University and other African universities become possible. Published online : 06 June 2016

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Journal Article•DOI•
The Effective Action of Theatre in the Educational Mapping of Linguistic and Intercultural Mediators

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Maria Isabel Fernandez Garcia, Mercedes Ariza, Claudio Bendazzoli, Maria Giovanna Biscu, Yvonne Grimaldi 
01 Jul 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the University Theatre experience at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of the University of Bologna (Forli campus) over the last twenty years.
Abstract: This paper is based on the University Theatre experience at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of the University of Bologna (Forli campus) over the last twenty years. A great number of trainee translators and interpreters has had the opportunity to explore the world of theatre in a foreign language, which can be referred to as TiLLiT (i.e. theatre in language and language in theatre) or stage-classroom. This activity has been carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area. Evidence of this can be found in the final dissertations that some students-actors wrote to complete their curriculum. Four dissertations in total will be considered to illustrate the effective action of theatre, which enables its main protagonists to establish a direct link between theoretical notions and experience.

3 citations

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  • ...…SSLMIT, where an intense theatrical activity has been going on since 1992.2 This activity is carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area (González & Wagenaar 2006)....

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  • ...University theatre in a foreign language stands as a concrete answer to the needs posed by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), its main priority being based on an educational model to teach students how they can learn, i.e. acquiring the skills to achieve the following objective: learning to learn....

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  • ...Indeed, this has been the object of reflection and observation for Copyright © 2013 Scenario · All rights reserved · Alle Rechte vorbehalten María Isabel Fernández García, Mercedes Ariza, Claudio Bendazzoli, Maria Giovanna Biscu, Yvonne Grimaldi The Effective Action of Theatre in the Educational Mapping of Linguistic and Intercultural Mediators 1 Scenario Volume 2012 · Issue 2 several years within the university theatre groups of SSLMIT, where an intense theatrical activity has been going on since 1992.2 This activity is carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area (González & Wagenaar 2006)....

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  • ...This activity has been carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area....

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Testing for Competence Rather Than for "Intelligence"

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David C. McClelland1•
Harvard University1
01 Jan 1973-American Psychologist
TL;DR: The testing movement in the United States has been a success, if one judges success by the usual American criteria of size, influence, and profitability, but what assumptions is the success of the movement based?
Abstract: The testing movement in the United States has been a success, if one judges success by the usual American criteria of size, influence, and profitability. Intelligence and aptitude tests are used nearly everywhere by schools, colleges, and employers. It is a sign of backwardness not to have test scores in the school records of children. The Educational Testing Service alone employs about 2,000 people, annually administers Scholastic Aptitude Tests to thousands of aspirants to college, and makes enough money to support a large basic research operation. Its tests have tremendous power over the lives of young people by stamping some of them "qualified" and others "less qualified" for college work. Until recent "exceptions" were made (over the protest of some), the tests have served as a very efficient device for screening out black, Spanish-speaking, and other minority applicants to colleges. Admissions officers have protested that they take other qualities besides test achievements into account in granting admission, but careful studies by Wing and Wallach (1971) and others have shown that this is true only to a very limited degree. Why should intelligence or aptitude tests have all this power? What justifies the use of such tests in selecting applicants for college entrance or jobs? On what assumptions is the success of the movement based? They deserve careful examination before we go on rather blindly promoting the use of tests as instruments of power over the lives of many Americans.

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Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Abraham Flexner
10 Aug 2009

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Journal Article•DOI•
League Tables and Their Limitations: Statistical Issues in Comparisons of Institutional Performance

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Harvey Goldstein1, David Spiegelhalter2•
Institute of Education1, Medical Research Council2
01 May 1996-Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-statistics in Society
TL;DR: The paper emphasizes that statistical methods exist which can contribute to an understanding of the extent and possible reasons for differences between institutions and urges caution by discussing the limitations of such methods.
Abstract: SUMMARY In the light of an increasing interest in the accountability of public institutions, this paper sets out the statistical issues involved in making quantitative comparisons between institutions in the areas of health and education. We deal in detail with the need to take account of model-based uncertainty in making comparisons. We discuss the need to establish appropriate measures of institutional 'outcomes' and base-line measures and the need to exercise care and sensitivity when interpreting apparent differences. The paper emphasizes that statistical methods exist which can contribute to an understanding of the extent and possible reasons for differences between institutions. It also urges caution by discussing the limitations of such methods.

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Effectiveness of problem-based learning curricula: theory, practice and paper darts.

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Geoffrey R. Norman1, Henk G. Schmidt1•
McMaster University1
01 Sep 2000-Medical Education
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that (a) cognitive research is not contrived and irrelevant, (b) curriculum level interventions are doomed to fail and (c) education needs more theory‐based research.
Abstract: In a recent review article, Colliver concluded that there was no convincing evidence that problem-based learning was more effective than conventional methods. He then went on to lay part of the blame on cognitive psychology, claiming that 'the theory is weak, its theoretical concepts are imprecise. the basic research is contrived and ad hoc'. This paper challenges these claims and presents evidence that (a) cognitive research is not contrived and irrelevant, (b) curriculum level interventions are doomed to fail and (c) education needs more theory-based research.

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Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care

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Kenneth M. Ludmerer
01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Time to Heal as discussed by the authors provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests.
Abstract: Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer portrays the experience of learning medicine from the perspective of students, house officers, faculty, administrators, and patients, and he traces the immense impact on academic medical centers of outside factors such as World War II, the National Institutes of Health, private medical insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid. Most notably, the book explores the very real threats to medical education in the current environment of managed care, viewing these developments not as a catastrophe but as a challenge to make many long overdue changes in medical education and medical practice. Panoramic in scope, meticulously researched, brilliantly argued, and engagingly written, Time to Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a courageous critique of modern medical education. The definitive book on the subject, it provides an indispensable framework for making informed choices about the future of medical education and health care in America.

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