EduCom Minutes 2018-10-16

Meeting details

Monday, 16th October 2018, 10am - 11:30 CT (5pm-6.30 Vienna Time)

Welcome

• Participants

• Jürgen Brandstätter
• Stefan Sauermann
• Werner Henschelchen
• Laura Bright

• Review and Approve Agenda

• Approved

Roles and Processes for Exam Development

• Discussion, see process overview image

• according to EN ISO/IEC 17024 (2012, confirmed 2018) we want to make sure that exam designers and training providers do not experience conflicts of interest.
• Status on structure (Werner)

• Under the Education Committee we form a sub-committee "Education Exam Sub-committee"

• Members should be experts on exam questions, but may consult other groups for advice and recommendations
• Goal: Maximize independency in creating exam question
• Responsibilities

• Creation and maintenance of an exam question pool

• Question recommendations may be delivered by individual members "directly" of the Education Committee (no review of Education Group should occur)

• Creation of the exam structure, based on the learning outcomes developed by the Education Committee
• Note: The random combination of questions to exams is done by the exam provider

• Contraints

• Members must be independent from training (trainers, teachers, training providers, tutor, training material producers, etc.)
• Members are allowed to be part of the Education Committee
• Minimum member count: 4
• Members MUST NOT be active in the training sector for a minimum of 1 year after resigning of the group

• Note: One-way restriction: Trainers stopping their business may become member of this sub-committee immediately

• Decision: Education Exam sub-committee is created

• Chair: Werner Henschelchen
• Members:

• Action item: Send out invitation to group (Jürgen)
• Minimum requirement: Commitment to remain in the group until first exam is finished

• Steps to final exam:

• Getting min 3 members for Exam sub-committee
• Finalize Business Outcomes
• Finalize Learning Outcomes
• Question pool creation process, on the basis of the Learning Outcomes:

• 1) Existing exam questions (example questions, questions of Stefan's university) will be submitted to Exam sub-committee
• 2) Send out invitation to the group to submit proposals for exam questions to exam sub-committee
• 3) Exam sub-committee processes and maps all incoming questions to the learning outcomes
• 4) Remaining exam questions will be developed by Exam sub-committee
• Note: Exam question format: Multiple Choice Question type (select 1 out of 4-6)

Business Outcomes and Learning Outcomes

• Discussion, incoming comments
  • See Google Docs document

• Business Outcomes

• No comments since we processed them last call

• Learning Outcomes

• Reviewed until point 2
• Will be continued offline and next call

:* Decision for timeline:

• Finalizing Learning Outcomes October 30th
• Final approval of Business and Learning Outcomes at call November 14th (moved from 13th)

Any other business

• None

Next Meetings

• Tuesday, Oct 30, 8-9:30pm Vienna time
• Tuesday, Nov 14, 5-6:30pm Vienna time (moved from 13th)

IHE Education Committee