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Revision or Re-vision: Exploring approaches to the differentiation of qualification types in the Australian Qualifications Framework
Transition and Post-School Education and Training
  • Kate Perkins, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Justin Brown, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Paul R Weldon, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Louise Wignall, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Publication Date
10-1-2019
Subjects
Program effectiveness, Program evaluation, Qualifications, Frameworks, Reviews, Standards, Outcomes of education, Classification, Knowledge, Skills, Competence
Abstract

In March 2019, the Department of Education commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to conduct a conceptual analysis of the most appropriate way to develop and present a taxonomy of learning outcomes within a qualifications framework; and a technical analysis and revision of the Knowledge, Skills and Application of Knowledge and Skills descriptors used in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Later this was extended to development of two alternative models that: (a) reflect the new conceptual base developed in Part I; (b) comprise a set of revised domain definitions (along with a new typology for each domain); and (c) include some example descriptors to indicate how descriptors could operate; and develop ways in which the two models might be utilised in the specification of qualification types; and analyse and report on potential benefits and limitations of the models.

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Place of Publication
Canberra Australia
Publisher
Department of Education
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Citation Information
Perkins, K., Brown, J., Weldon, P., & Wignall, L. (2019). Revision or Re-vision: Exploring approaches to the differentiation of qualification types in the Australian Qualifications Framework. Canberra, Australia: Department of Education.