AHELO FS Conference Agenda

 

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Measuring Learning Outcomes in Higher Education:
Lessons Learnt from the AHELO Feasibility Study and Next Steps

11-12 March 2013
OECD Conference Centre, Paris

Monday 11 March 2013

 

Check-in

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary 1 – Conference opening

Welcome speech - OECD Director for Education

Opening keynote - The emergence and rationale for measuring learning outcomes
Jamie Merisotis, Lumina Foundation for Education

The making of the AHELO feasibility study and key findings
OECD Secretariat

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Plenary 2 – Lessons on what worked, what didn’t work and what we learnt from the Feasibility Study experience
OECD Secretariat, Chairs of the AHELO GNE and TAG.

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00

Plenary 3 – What we learnt about the purpose and uses for measures of learning outcomes?

Keynote 2 - Measuring learning outcomes: what for and for whom?
Andreas Schleicher, OECD

Stakeholders’ views on measuring learning outcomes

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 17:15

Plenary 3 - Continued

17:15 – 18:00

Plenary 4 – Taking AHELO forward: next steps and the importance of the workshop discussions
Deborah Roseveare, OECD

 

Tuesday 12 March 2013

9:00 – 10:30 

Workshop 1

How can international measures of learning outcomes provide a valid and valuable response to today’s higher education challenges?

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Workshops 2

What are the key challenges in developing an international measurement of learning outcomes?

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00

Workshops 3

How can we combine an assessment that is useful to institutions with wider policy goals?

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00

Plenary 5 – Conference closing

What have we learned from the workshops?
Deborah Roseveare

Conference Closing and wrap-up of conference discussions