The ASPIRE-to-Excellence Initiative: Can We recognize Excellence in Student Engagement with the Curriculum?

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Excellence in Curriculum Development and Assessment

Pharmacy and other health sciences educators have often faced curriculum and assessment issues. However, as expectations for accountability and assessment have continued to grow for higher education institutions, there is increasing concern about the development of assessment plans and the appropriate use of assessment data. A variety of approaches have been used for development of both curricu...

Implications of academic medicine's failure to recognize clinical excellence.

OBJECTIVE To better understand the implications of inadequately recognizing clinical excellence in academia by exploring the perspectives of clinically excellent faculty within prominent American departments of medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING 8 academic institutions. PARTICIPANTS 24 clinically excellent department of medicine physicians. METHODS Between March 1 and May 31, 2...

Curriculum for Excellence : ‘ A brilliant idea , but ... ’

Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence typifies many international trends in curricular policy, through its emphasis on generic skills and competencies, its focus on pedagogy and its apparent extension of autonomy to teachers as agents of change. Such curricula pose considerable challenges to school systems, where prevailing practices are often at odds with policy aspirations. This article draws ...

Curriculum for Excellence and Interdisciplinary Learning

This paper examines the recommendations contained in Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) aimed at encouraging the integration of knowledge, skills and understanding across different areas of the curriculum. It first outlines what is said in the official CfE documentation and supporting materials produced by Education Scotland, noting the absence of references to earlier work on curriculum integrati...