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Measuring the Impact of the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning
Overview
In
July 2012, the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) was commissioned
by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to conduct an evaluation of the impact of
the UK Professional Standard Framework (UKPSF), reporting in March 2013. The
project will evaluate awareness, understanding and use of the UKPSF at the
institutional and individual level and will provide recommendations to the HEA
on fostering the use of the UKPSF and future research in this area.
The Project
The project
aims to establish:
- Current levels of awareness and
understanding of the UKPSF in the sector
- Attitudes, obstacles, challenges
and opportunities in using the UKPSF
- The uptake and variations in
practice in use of the UKPSF
It is intended that the results will form a
baseline that can be used to assess changes in impact of the UKPSF in future
research.
How will the aims
be achieved?
The project will consist of three
components:
- A survey amongst key informants
which will establish evidence of institutional-level use of the UKPSF. Survey results will be used to classify use
of the UKPSF and optional open-ended responses will provide outline case
studies, which will be analysed to identify attitudes, obstacles, challenges
and opportunities.
- A wider survey, involving a random sample of staff that support
student learning, will establish evidence of awareness, understanding and
impact on practice. This will establish individual-level awareness, attitudes
and uses of the UKPSF.
- A series of interviews, providing more detailed accounts of uses
of the UKPSF, also a more in-depth understanding of attitudes, obstacles,
challenges and opportunities. These will be sampled from the responses to the
surveys, picking those that represent a diversity of uses and experiences. It
will result in institutional case studies, including the production of vodcasts.
What will the
outputs be?
The
project will deliver:
- A full research report
- Institutional case studies
demonstrating a range of uses of the UKPSF
- Vodcasts exploring individual
awareness, understanding and use of the UKPSF
- A set of recommendations on fostering
the use of the UKPSF and future research in this area
Project Team
The project team has been drawn from the SEDA
Scholarship and Research Committee and includes Nancy Turner, Dr Martin Oliver,
Dr Holly Smith, Liz Shrives and Dr Frances Deepwell. The team has breadth and depth of experience
in use of the UKPSF and conducting evaluative research. The team includes individuals who lead
educational development units, develop and deliver HE teacher development
programmes and institutional CPD Frameworks, conduct institutionally based
evaluations, and conduct and publish research on evaluation of impact.
If you would like to be a participant in the
project please contact:
Nancy
Turner, Associate Dean University of the Arts London: nancy.turner@arts.ac.uk
Martin
Oliver, Institute of Education, m.oliver@ioe.ac.uk
Project blog: ukpsfimpactproject.wordpress.com/
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