Abstract Ontario’s Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) is reviewed and found
not to meet all five criteria proposed for a strong quality assurance system focused
on student learning. The QAF requires a statement of student learning outcomes and
a method and means of assessing those outcomes, but it does not require that data on
achievement of intended learning outcomes be collected, analyzed and used for
continuous program improvement. By failing to be a strong framework for quality
assurance, it cannot be used to demonstrate that institutions of higher education in
Ontario have achieved high quality, in the ‘‘fitness-for-purpose’’ sense of that
concept. As a result, the QAF assures only a ‘‘shooting the moon’’ version of
quality, where having a target (the moon), aimed at carefully in a standardized way,
is treated as proxy for actually hitting the target (learning outcomes).
Keywords Quality Quality assurance Assessment Accountability
Learning outcomes
Abstract Ontario’s Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) is reviewed and foundnot to meet all five criteria proposed for a strong quality assurance system focusedon student learning. The QAF requires a statement of student learning outcomes anda method and means of assessing those outcomes, but it does not require that data onachievement of intended learning outcomes be collected, analyzed and used forcontinuous program improvement. By failing to be a strong framework for qualityassurance, it cannot be used to demonstrate that institutions of higher education inOntario have achieved high quality, in the ‘‘fitness-for-purpose’’ sense of thatconcept. As a result, the QAF assures only a ‘‘shooting the moon’’ version ofquality, where having a target (the moon), aimed at carefully in a standardized way,is treated as proxy for actually hitting the target (learning outcomes).Keywords Quality Quality assurance Assessment Accountability Learning outcomes
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