Educational System Guidelines Learner Tier - Explanation Sheets (original) (raw)

The following guidelines are intended to aid in the continual improvement of educational systems. The underlying framework for these guidelines asserts that there are at least three tiers that impact student learning and development: 1) Learners, 2) Courses-Instructors, and 3) the Educational Organization in part or as a whole. In order to improve the quality of education, we must work with each of these three tiers and a series of guidelines have therefore been developed for them. These guidelines may be used for such endeavors as developing objectives for educational development interventions, conducting system-wide assessments, providing feedback to specific entities within the institution, et cetera. The more detailed explanations below are intended to provide further insights into each of the guidelines and their associated levels. A narrative description is provided along with examples that one might expect to find for each of the levels. Each guideline is separated out to have its own sheet of paper (front and back). Each sheet provides a narrative description as well as examples for each level. Overall, in addition to providing clarity, these explanations should also help to improve reliability when using the guidelines.