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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783982403321

Titolo

Outcomes, learning, and the curriculum : implications for NVQs, GNVQs, and other qualifications / / editor, John Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Falmer Press, , 1995

ISBN

1-135-72059-2

1-135-72060-6

0-203-48583-1

1-280-10936-X

0-203-21111-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurkeJohn W

Disciplina

370.19/316

Soggetti

Competency-based education - Great Britain

School-to-work transition - Great Britain

Vocational qualifications - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes papers presented at a conference sponsored by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, held in Croydon in March 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations, Acronyms and Concepts; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Introduction and Overview; The Outcomes Model; Outcome Based Qualifications and the Implications for Learning; Theoretical Issues in Relation to Jessup's Outcomes Model; Standards and the Outcomes Approach; Outcomes and National (Scottish) Vocational Qualifications; Curriculum Consequences; GNVQs Phase One; Piloting GNVQ; Quality in Qualifications and Learning Programmes; Flexible Learning and Outcomes; Modularization and the Outcomes Approach: Towards a Strategy for a Curriculum of the Future

From Design to Delivery: The Implementation of the NCVQ Core Skills UnitsThe Assessment of Outcomes; Applications of the Outcomes Approach; Outcomes and Autonomy; Work-based Learning and Outcomes; Outcomes in Management; Outcomes and Professional Knowledge; Learning Outcomes in Higher Education; Issues in Progression; Aspiration, Achievement and Progression in Post-secondary and Higher Education; International Comparison;



Competencies, Attributes and the Curriculum: The Australian Agenda; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education NVQs & GNVOs which give a discussion of the main themes leads the reader into a discussion of key ideas and the theory behind the Outcomes approach.