Comprehensive Course Review
Comprehensive Course Review (CCR) is a broad in-depth review of a course conducted at least every 5 years to ensure high quality, viability and compatibility with Curtin's strategic direction and priorities. The review encompasses the currency of the curriculum, demand, teaching quality and outcomes, evaluation of student and external stakeholder feedback, compatibility with and differentiation from other course offerings. Therefore it reviews and analyses the entire academic program for an award; its regulations, structure (its units, major and minor sequences), currency of the curriculum, quality of teaching and learning, management, fieldwork, projects and work experience, and any other aspects which comprise the award course. See the Course Review Policy.
Three tools are pivotal to comprehensive course review:
- The Needs Analysis Tool, which includes an assessment of a course’s progresses towards embedding the triple-i curriculum, draws on comprehensive data from key national and Curtin performance indicators which capture the perspectives of current students, recent graduates and employers and industry stakeholders. It includes two new surveys: eVALUate Graduate and eVALUate Employer. A third survey, to be developed through an ALTC-funded project will capture the course teaching team's self-reported capability to assess graduate attributes and employability skills in related professions. For more information, see
360-degree Feedback on Courses: Needs Analysis for Comprehensive Course Review. - The Curriculum Mapping Tool shows all units in the course (the syllabus, learning outcomes and the Graduate Attributes to which they relate, assessment alignment with learning outcomes and the level of thinking they require (using Bloom's taxonomy). The map also shows how and where the Graduate Attributes are contextualised, embedded and assessed across the course. For more information, see Mapping curricula: ensuring work-ready graduates by mapping course learning outcomes and higher order thinking skills
- The Assessment Matrix is in development: this tool will provide staff with summary data of the types of assessment, timing and weighting of assessments across the course, and the relative success of students (based on Student One’s Distribution of Scores report).
In parallel with Comprehensive Review of Courses, large service taught units are being reviewed, particularly to avoid duplicating this process for each of the courses they service. Courses serviced by these large units will be consulted about their students' learning needs, and the extent to which they are being met by the unit in its current form. Service teaching unit coordinators (and colleagues) will be offered assistance to review unit outcomes and the strategies for achieving them.
For more information on Comprehensive Course Review, contact Sonia Ferns.
