Transcript ADSHE QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY

ADSHE QUALITY
ASSURANCE POLICY
Professional Development Day
22nd September 2012
Overview
Why is QA important?
How will it
involve
ADSHE
members?
Background
to QA policy
Overview of policy
Why is QA important?
To demonstrate that
dyslexia specialists
have a variety of
effective ways of
monitoring and quality
assuring dyslexia
support across HEIs.
Interested parties:
students; funding
bodies; institutions
QA is accountable,
transparent and
consistent with the
clear aim of ensuring
best practice across
the sector
Background
Quality Assurance Working Party set up in June 2010 to build on
work from Guidelines for establishing Quality Assurance protocols
To design CPD self-audit tools
To introduce peer supervision (PPS) models
To set up a register of dyslexia specialist tutors
To provide good practice guidelines and set up standards for
dyslexia specialists to follow
What has happened so far?
Research into
QA procedures
Series of
workshops and
consultation
meetings with
ADSHE
membership
Survey of
membership
views on QA
issues
Peer
supervision
pilot workshop
Pilot of selfaudit tool for
tutors Code of
Ethics
What is the outcome?
ADSHE Quality Assurance Policy
Professional Standards
A register of ADSHE professionally
qualified tutors who agree to undertake
regular CPD and some form of
supervision
A list of ADSHE registered tutors
available for freelance work
Policy Appendices
Membership
Code of
Ethics
Complaints
Procedure
Appropriate
qualifications
Membership categories
1. Ordinary member – individual
Professionals qualified to work in a 1:1 tutorial support capacity
with SpLD students in higher education
Specialist tutors with experience of working in a 1:1 tutorial
support capacity with SpLD students in higher education
2. ADSHE registered member
3. Student member
4. Invited member
Professionals (including Educational Psychologists and Disability Officers) working in the field of dyslexia/SpLDs, who are not
necessarily Specialist SpLD tutors.
ADSHE Register – long-term
Ordinary members with
suitable qualifications can
opt to be put on ADSHE
Register of Specialist SpLD
tutors
Maintain
professional
standards
List of ADSHE
registered
tutors
Fully qualified
Applying to be on the Register
Provide evidence of qualifications
Agree to abide by ADSHE QA procedures (Code of
Ethics, Quality Assurance Policy and Guidelines)
Keep a log of CPD activities and provide evidence of
CPD (self-audit tool; professional peer supervision
Provide evidence of recent specialist 1:1 tutorial
experience
CPD
Reflection on practice e.g. self-audit tool
Professional peer supervision (PPS)
Updating skills
Attendance at conferences/training days
Research into relevant topics
Critical reading with review
(newsletter/current research)
Other
ADSHE Freelance List
Registered members can
opt to be put on ADSHE
Freelance List of Specialist
SpLD tutors
Evidence required on
yearly basis:
• current CRB clearance
• professional indemnity insurance
• Evidence of teaching
The Wider Context
Setting standards in the
sector
Ways of ensuring quality
assurance for non-medical
helpers across the sector
Business Innovation & Skills
Student Finance England
Eventually some form of QA
mandatory
Crucial that ADSHE sets the
standards for QA in HE