“Learning Outcomes Based Approach in Assessment and

Validation of WBL and Apprenticeships”

Workshop

Riga, Latvia

16.05.2017.-20.05.2017.

Implementation ofmobility

• Working in groups – each country is represented in each group

• Collecting experience and presenting

• Bringing the results in one stucture

Which steps are necessary to implement a mobility – to send and to receive a trainee or apprentice to or from anther country?

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WBL and apprenticeship

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• Real life work experience• Skilled employees for the

industry• Coordination between

school-based activities andwork-based activities : to show WHY they arelearning

• Reaching competences

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• Cooperation between schooland company

• Duration ?• Paid or unpaid ?• Training agreement (two sided,

tripartite)• Trial period ?• Training programm• Diary• Employer evaluation• Students Self-evaluation• Feedback conversation• ?

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«Educator»

Specialist

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Coordinator, time manager

Mediator

Person of trustand support

Teacher

Evaluator

Promoter

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Colleague

Specialist

Representingthe interestsof apprentice

«Boss»

Role model

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Person oftrust Teacher,

mentor

Educator

Coordinator ofLearningprocess

Evaluator

Contact personbetween all

sides

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Criteria for companies

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Familiar with the philosophy of

workplace training for trainees

Work safety

Individual plan withLearning tasks and

outcomes

Mentor/tutorAvailable and

qualified staff to assist the trainee

Willingness to train

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Providing alltraining content

regarding to training programm

Suitableequipment/

Working place forthe apprentice

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Company Tutor

• Professional in the speciality in which thestudent is to do workplace training

• Available for monitoring and advising thetrainee

• Pedagogical skills (guidance, assessment, feedback)

• Familiar with the tasks of the student

• Motivated to host student

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Mobility implementation:Common goals, principles and technical componentsQuality assuranceRecognition of learning outcomes and achievements

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Formalise a partnership

Memorandumof

Understanding

Define theconditions forthe mobility

for eachindividual

learner

LearningAgreement

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During

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Demonstrationof targeted LO’s

Throughseveral

methods

Collectingassesment

sheets

Self-assessment, feedback meeting/discussions, writtenfeedback sheets, skills demonstrations, presentations… ?

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Documentation Validation Recognition

• Validation: Sending institution considers documentationrelating to the assessment of LO’s, compares this to LearningAgreement

• Recognition: process of attesting officially achieved LO’s

Evaluation ofmobility:

feedback fromall partners

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Memorandum ofUnderstanding

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• Voluntary agreement between competentinstitutions from two or more countries

• Confirming cooperation tasks

• Details of organisations signing the MoU

• Available qualifications and units of learningoutcomes

• Assessment, documentation, validation, recognition (shared, discussed, agreed)

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Learning Agreement

• Information about participants

• Duration of mobility

• Trainees qualification, information on traineesprogress

• Description of learning outcomes

• Fixed documents for assessment

• information about validation and recognition

• Signature – Home and host organisation andLearner

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Units of LearningOutcomes

• Learning outcomes – statements of whattrainee knows, understands and is able to do during/after the mobility

• Knowledge, skills and competences

• Methods, criteria and instruments to assessachieved LO (who, how, when)

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Europass Mobility

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Experience?

Benefits?

Finnish Example

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Recognition andValidation

• Process of validation ?

• Institution of recognition ?

• Experience, challenges ?

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Open EducationResources and Platform

• General information about Learningoutcomes based approach (links to thechosen ECVET materials/websites)

• Before/during/after – examples of Training, units of LO’s

• Additional examples from Partner countries

• Vocabulary – in all partner languages

• Movies, Story ?

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