A collaborative research project conducted by five Australian universities inquired into the
philosophy and motivation for Assurance of Learning (AoL) as a process of education …

Assurance of learning (AoL) is a predominant feature in both quality assurance and quality
enhancement in higher education. The process may be used for program development, and …

This paper provides an overview of assurance of learning (AoL) practices across Australia in
the context of a comparison of two national surveys. AoL is a quality enhancement process …

Assurance of learning (AOL) is a quality enhancement and quality assurance process used
in higher education. It involves a process of determining programme learning outcomes and …

Assessing student learning in ways that offer students, institutions and systems with sound
information is a considerable challenge for higher education. Despite demonstrable …

In a study of assuring learning in Australian Business Schools, 25 Teaching and Learning
Associate Deans were interviewed to identify current issues in developing and measuring …

This article is the second in a series1 of three that describes the journey on which the
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) embarked to redevelop our evaluation …

Assessment is one of the most controversial issues in higher education today. Guidelines
and principles abound. The UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and …

The increasingly ritualized and instrumental evaluation of higher education, initiated mainly
from above, has resulted in little consideration of what is needed if evaluation is truly to …

T HIS paper argues that, despite an increasing uniformity of approach to quality monitoring,
there is little analysis of the rationale behind the methods because there is little exploration …