Defining excellence in learning resource provision:

from peer review to quality toolkit

Dr Andrew Eynon

Library Resource Manager, Coleg Llandrillo Cymru

From standards to self-evaluation

From Guidelines to peer review

Services Supporting Learning in Wales: A Quality Toolkit for Evaluating Learning Resource Services in Further Education Colleges

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Format

Quality Indicators Key Prompts Examples of Evidence Performance Indicators Grade Illustrations

Benefits

Judge quality of performance against a common set of criteria

Identify patterns of service strength and weakness

Highlight best practice Develop service improvement

action plans

The future

Peer Review scheme Welsh toolkit 2nd edition Scottish toolkit 2nd edition

Toolkit for England

Meeting between CoFHE/CILIP, QIA and Ofsted May 2007

CoFHE to develop a toolkit in conjunction with CoLRiC

Toolkit for England - contents

Rationale How to use the toolkit Vision 5 KQs

Rationale

Need for detailed evaluation of LRSs Need for guidance for practitioners Need for guidelines for college

managers Follow model of best practice in

Scotland and Wales

Vision

Need to highlight vital role of the LRS in teaching and learning

How LRSs can meet evolving student needs

How LRSs can and are adopting new technologies

How LRSs improve the student experience How LRCs need to meet changing

patterns of use

Key Questions

How well to learners achieve? Does the service provide effective support

to teaching, training and learning? How well do programmes and activities

meet the needs and interests of learners? How effectively are learners guided and

supported? How effective are leadership and

management in raising achievement and supporting all learners?

Key Question coverage

KQ1 – overarching question KQ2 – academic liaison, use of ICT, reader

development, information literacy KQ3 – personalised learning, partnerships KQ4 – Accessibility, induction, LRS support KQ5 –staffing, quality, management &

leadership

Structure

Quality indicator and key prompt Who responsible Performance indicators

CoFHE guidelines CoLRiC Peer Accreditation Scheme Toolkit

Evidence

Grade illustrations

Indicative – what a grade 1 institution might look like

Real world examples Examples for all 4 grades

Working Party

Steve Cropper (Wirral Metropolitan College) Alex Talbot (Newcastle College) Kate Gardner (Worcester College of

Technology) Lee Bryant (City of Bristol College) Chrissie Turkington (JISC RSC North West) Nicola Scott (Hackney Community College) Jim Temple (North Trafford College) Andrew Eynon (Coleg Llandrillo Cymru)

What next?

Toolkit to be published in hardcopy Linked to CEL/QIA website as a

model of best practice Support material on CoFHE website Hands on sessions using toolkit

FAQs

E-mail:a.eynon@llandrillo.ac.uk

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