Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Further Education Colleges
How effective are teaching, training and learning?

In effective self-assessment, teaching, training and learning are evaluated by the extent to which the learning provider...

2.17uses assessment information, including the analysis of the performance of different groups of learners, to guide course and programme development.

Success in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL provision in the FE college context means the learning provider...

2.17.1ensures that all teaching teams have clear targets for learner success and fully understand the performance standards they are expected to meet.
2.17.2provides accurate and timely information about learner outcomes and trains all staff to use this information to improve their performance.
2.17.3ensures that each course team undertakes regular reviews of learning outcomes on their programme.
2.17.4compares progress reviews with previous performance and national benchmarks, where available.
2.17.5ensures that course teams for each programme undertake an equality analysis of learner outcomes to compare the performance of different groups of learners.
2.17.6notes any fall in performance, poor relative performance or identified equality gaps and feeds this into the programme review for improvements to be agreed and actioned.

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