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Closing Plenary: The Architecture of Quality - Peter Brown
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The Architecture of Quality in Language Education for the future
Peter Brown
EAQUALS Conference, Belgrade – 15th November 2014
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Theory without practice has no feet Pratice without theory has no head Prof. Enzo Tonti, Università di Trieste
Reflection – Belgrade, 2014:
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•What do we mean by „Quality Education‟ ?
•So far, QA and QC in language environments has been the „compliancy model‟ (pb)
•Checking against, inter alia:
–Laws and regulations
–Industry “standards”
–Self-imposed criteria e.g. EAQUALS Charters
•Can we move on and build on this?
•Compliancy as the bedrock on which to build
Refections – Belgrade, 2014:
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•But pre- & pro-scriptive, very poor QA and QC
•Fallingwater re-engineered after only 60 years – cf Brunelleschi‟s Duomo in Florence, Sir Christopher Wren, ...
•Massive cost overruns, delays, violations of planning/building laws - the Guggenheim
•Leaking roofs, poor heating & ventilation
•Frank Lloyd Wrong?
•Moving from the architect to architecture
The downside – Belgrade, 2014:
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•What can we learn from architecture?
•Things we should or could be doing?
–Let‟s try to apply the qualities of architecture
–Let‟s look at plan and elevation
•Things we should avoid doing?
•Can architecture provide insights into the relationship between the practical and the creative, the measurable and unmeasurable, how to establish whether we have been „successful‟ from a learner‟s perspective?
Challenges – Belgrade, 2014:
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•Architecture (A) seen as composition
•A is a planned, co-ordinated activity
•A uses plans which can be replicated
•A cannot be done alone, requires others
•A comes to you, surrounds you
•A has both functional & notional components
–F: basics to keep you warm, dry, provide shelter
–N: defines space, form, provides aesthetic
•A brings people, materials, purpose together
What can we learn? – Belgrade, 2014:
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•FL teaching/learning (L) seen as composition
•L is a planned, co-ordinated activity
•L uses plans which can be replicated
•L cannot be done alone, requires others
•L comes to you, surrounds you
•L has both functional & notional components
–F: basics of communication
–N: defines space, form, provides aesthetic
•L brings people, materials, purpose together
Relevance for us? – Belgrade, 2014:
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•„Big Data‟ and a mathematical universe (EAQUALS has potential access to big data)
•DNA (2-bit A+T, C+G) and „small data‟
•„Free‟ vs. Open access
•Numbers and imagination
•GDP vs. Human Development Index (HDI)
•What is possibly the single greatest mistake made in architecture in the last 100 years?
Reflections – Belgrade, 2014:
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fractal alert: alert
teacher and learner
to intervene
responses submitted over course
student who will
succeed - smooth
Fractal = 1.60
student who will fail
or not complete – noisey
Fractal = 1.94
Efficacy Analytics: identifying learners at risk
Patent awarded 2013
Efficacy and improving learner 18 outcomes, EAQUALS April 2014
Courtesy: Dr Adam Black - Pearson
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“In a global economy, and there has been one for three thousand years, it is the non-market institutions which will shape the economic world”
Amartya Sen,
Nobel Prize for Economics 1998
Trieste, February 2003
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In future, Quality Assurance could also mean ...
•Efficacy – fit for purpose – appropriate, but within constraints & resources
•Expeditious – deliverable quickly, and in its totality, within time frames e.g. school years
•Efficient (measuring outcomes)
–Minimum: waste of resources
–Maximum: benefits, for the largest n° of learners
Take home messages – Belgrade, 2014:
24. •Proposal: The Quality Index (pb)
•Compliancy +: the Architecture of Quality, the three Es
•Quantitative – how much a learner can do
–but also parameters: simple equations to relate time on task, cost involved (both temporal & monetary), level reached, ...
•Qualitative – how well a learner can do
–assessments of range, accuracy, control, ...
–the teaching-learning environment, ...
•Thus an organic architecture into which we place teaching-learning, outcomes, innovation, creativity, ... QI must focus on the “language inhabitant” or “language citizen”
Take home messages – Belgrade, 2014:
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1) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
2) Not everything that can be counted counts
3) Not everything that counts can be counted
Albert Einstein
… and – Belgrade, 2014:
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The Architecture of Quality in Language Education for the future Food for thought for version 8? And the Developmental Group?
Peter Brown
EAQUALS Conference, Belgrade – 15th November 2014
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Via Torrebianca, 18
Trieste – Italy
++39 040 369.369
Trieste@British-FVG.net
British School
Trieste 2014
28. The British School FVG – Trieste
Via Torrebianca, 18
Trieste – Italy
++39 040 369.369
Peter.Brown@British-FVG.net
British School
Trieste 2014
