Evaluating at the Curriculum Level (1 December 2010) Sorry about the circumstances, but it was great to see you all again. Apologies for not having had time to prepare a more exciting session, but I hope some of the ideas will be useful--and not too different from what Peter W would have done had he been able...

Here is the presentation (with some notes added):


The link to Graham Gibbs' (2010) Dimensions of Quality paper is here and my initial reflections on it here and here.

My take on the relationship between values, effort and QA (the J-curve stuff) is here.

The hidden curriculum discussion and references can be found here 

Communities of Practice are introduced here, on the infed.org site.

Brookfield's "hunting assumptions" idea is discussed here; the reference is to Brookfield, S.D. (1995) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.

And the Kirkpatrick four level model is outlined here.

The book to which Michaela referred is Gladwell M (2005) Blink; the power of thinking without thinking London; Penguin. If you liked that you might also like Claxton G (1998) Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less London; Fourth Estate.

The five-minute university is here:



A propos of nothing, apart from the weather, the time of year and inclusivity:



Enough for now!  23:18