Megan Lawton & Emma Purnell The Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL): Critical Interventions for Enhanced Learning (CIEL)

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 – 2006PebblePad is available for all staff and students 2008 – ,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 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.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

Now and future planning Modular scheme – integrated learning Evidencing graduate attributes Articulating HE experience – HEAR’s? Learning works: refocusing the under graduate curriculum