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Re: RDN use of UK educational levels

From:

Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]>

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Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:07:26 +0000

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Gerry Graham wrote:

> At a previous MEG meeting it was discussed that the Ed Levels work should be
> completed. I had 'volunteered' to facilitate the completion of the work.
> Various issues arose as to the 'political' complexities surrounding
> qualification frameworks that truly work across the whole of the UK.
>
> I had tidied up the original table before halting any further work. I've
> since added the NICAT information according to its own articulation
> guidance.
>
> The latest version of the table is attached. You can see that the SCQF
> offers the lowest common denominator for describing resource level. It goes
> lower than NICATS and is more granular due to Scottish Higher Education
> levels.
>
> I would endorse Charles Duncan's view that it offers the best chance for a
> solid core for educational levels.
>
> The attachment is a draft and is not endorsed by any of the 'owner'
> organisations. The next steps in the work would be to get buy-in and add
> more schools based curricula (such as those suggested by Milton)
>
> Feedback welcome

Gerry,
thanks for this.  A couple of queries...

1) The original MEG draft at

  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/documents/ed-level.html

implies (I think) that GCSE covers the whole of SCQF levels 1-5 (with SCQF
4-5 corresponding to GCSE grades A-C).  Your table indicates that GCSE
corresponds to SCQF levels 4-5 only.  Is one or other table worng, or have
I misinterpretted things?

2) The RDN uses qualified DC metadata internally.  If RDN decides to go
with SCQF levels in our metadata, do people agree that the following
mechanism for encoding SCQF looks reasonable?

<dcterms:educationLevel xsi:type="rdnterms:SCQF">
  Level 5
</dcterms:educationLevel>

One final question.  It would be nice to associate an updated version of
the explanatory text currently in the old draft, e.g. the equivalent of

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/documents/ed-level.html#intermedLevel

but associated with each of the SCQF levels in your table. Is this
something you are planning to do?

Regards,

Andy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Donovan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 November 2002 14:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RDN use of UK educational levels
>
>
>
> With reference to recent exchanges, colleagues might care to look at the
> LSDA/FEU credit work at  <http://www.lsda.org.uk/programmes/credit/>
> http://www.lsda.org.uk/programmes/credit/
>
> The level descriptors have undergone further refinement by NICATS to 8
> levels - from 'Entry' to HE post graduate/professional qualifications.  The
> NICATs descriptors can be found at:
> <http://www.nicats.ac.uk/about/prn_tlevl_descriptors.pdf>
> http://www.nicats.ac.uk/about/prn_tlevl_descriptors.pdf They are widely used
> in FE and HE  in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  They align with the
> NQF qualifications levels and have the advantage that they can be applied to
> both units and whole qualifications.  In addition they can be applied to all
> types of achievement - academic, vocational, or general.
>
> Some level descriptors otherwise proposed are qualifications levels and will
> not allow levels to be assigned to units based on intrinsic outcomes.
> Descriptors relating to units are essential for smaller parts of achievement
> level . The use of a credit system based on units of assessment is clearly
> vital (particularly) in the case of ICT/e-learning.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Kevin Donovan
> LSDA learning technologies team
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