Quality Improvement

The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.

Quality Improvement includes organisational quality management systems, self-assessment and external evaluation, evaluation of programmes and teaching.

Most recent resources about Quality Improvement

Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework: Principles, Standards and Practice

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The Australian and New Zealand information literacy framework is derived, with permission, from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information literacy competency standards for higher education.

Tatou Tatou – Success for all: Improving Maori student success

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The full research report from this NPF project by Dr Elana Taipapaki Curtis, Erena Wikaire, Torise Lualua-Aati, Bridget Kool, William Nepia, Dr Myra Ruka, Michelle Honey, Fiona Kelly, and Associate Professor Phillippa Poole.

VOCEDplus research database

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VOCEDplus is a free international research database containing over 44,000 English language records, many with links to full text documents. The particular focus of VOCEDplus is research and statistics as it relates to education for work and beyond.

A tertiary practitioner's guide to collecting evidence of learner benefit

A tertiary practitioner's guide to collecting evidence of learner benefit

Dimensions of quality

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This UK report identifies a range of dimensions of quality and examines the extent to which each could be considered a valid indicator, with reference to the available research evidence. It attempts to identify which kinds of data we should take seriously and which we should be cautious of placing weight on.