Megan Lawton & Emma Purnell

The Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL):

Critical Interventions for Enhanced Learning (CIEL)

www.wlv.ac.uk/cetl

Time Line 1999 – 2000 An ‘Individual Learning Profile’ (ILP) Pam Salter and

Diane Peacock, School of Art and Design

2000 – 2001 Identifying and addressing the needs of art and design students at risk of underachievement in their incoming year of study. Pam Salter and Diane Peacock School of Art and Design

2001 – 2002 University-wide ILP

2002 – 2003 University–wide ILP

2003 – 2004 University-wide ILP

2004 – 2005 ILP becomes a Learning Profile, part of Pebble Pad. Pebble Pad pilot

2005 – 2006 PebblePad is available for all staff and students

2008 – 2009 19,000 active users

“This Individual Learning Profile is designed to help both you and us understand how confident you feel about the skills you need to study. Each one of you will have a totally different profile as how confident you feel is an individual thing, there are no right or wrong answers. The questions are about the general skills we know you need to reach your potential in your studies”.

“This is not a test, The questions are asking about how confident you feel. Please answer honestly, as this will help us try to provide support for you.”

July 2002

Some issues raised from the University-wide ILP

It’s not a diagnostic tool

Sometimes confidence is mis-placed!

Students don’t know our expectations

We can’t turn around the ILP’s quick enough

How do we support students at risk?

This is too early and daunting in Welcome Week

I want this related to the subject context

Learning profiles

Learning skills profile

HEA Employability Profiles

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/employability/disciplines

53 discipline specific profiles

Based on the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) subject benchmark statements

Mapped against input from CIHE Employer membership regarding the employability skills, competencies and attributes which they valued when recruiting.

Student specific versions of the profiles, which will help these students to plan their own skills development within their course of study on the UCAS website.

Features

10 point scale rather than a 5 point scale

Abilities not confidence

Evidence linked to rating

Sharing with others

Links to such other tools e.g. ‘Action planning’

Professional Doctorate skills

Sharing practice

Sharing practice

Now and future planning

Modular scheme – integrated learning

Evidencing graduate attributes

Articulating HE experience – HEAR’s?

Learning works: refocusing the under graduate curriculum