what is tuning? a collaborative, faculty-driven process that identifies what a student should know...
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What is Tuning?
A collaborative, faculty-driven process that identifies what a student should know and be able to do in a chosen discipline at the completion of a degree by:
• Defining areas of competency
• Identifying learning outcomes
• Scaling competencies and outcomes to degree level
Associate’s
Bachelor’s
Master’s
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Tuning’s Key Premises
• Curricula should not be standardized
• Faculty control the discipline
• Academic autonomy and flexibility are essential
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Tuning in the US: 2009-2010
Three pilot states• Indiana• Minnesota• Utah
Six initial disciplines• History• Biology• Chemistry• Physics• Elementary Education• Graphic Design
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Tuning in the US: 2010-2011
Texas• 3 rounds of Tuning
Kentucky• Biology• Elementary Education
• Business• Nursing• Social Work
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Regional Tuning in the US: 2011-2013
Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
National Tuning in the US: 2012-2015American Historical Association (AHA)
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Tuning Educational Structures in the US
Lumina Foundation initiated Tuning USA to address the foundation’s Goal 2025:
Increase the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials
from 39 percent to 60 percent by the year 2025
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Tuning’s Culture of Collaboration
• Creates space for innovation—emphasizes that education is about learning, not credit hours
• Student-centered degree—emphasizes what students must accomplish over what should be taught
• Makes degree-level expectations explicit for students
• Assures quality for internal (students) & external (transfer institutions) stakeholders
• Synergizes with other educational priorities• Underrepresented populations• Student preparation and success
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MHEC Cross-State Tuning projectThree state project (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri)
Why tune across state lines?• Leverage faculty allegiance to the discipline as primary• Identify the challenges involved in Tuning outside of a single
state context• Enable faculty to “compare notes” about policies and practices
in their individual states
Why Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri? • Utilize pilot state experience (Indiana)• Desire for contiguous states (along with Kentucky)• Capture large metropolitan areas with movement of human
capital across state lines (Chicago and St. Louis)• Coordinating board states
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Why is MHEC involved with Tuning?• Consistent with MHEC mission of “Advancing
Education Through Cooperation” and related organizational objectives to:
• Enhance member states’ ability to maximize higher education opportunity and outcomes
• Promote improved student access, affordability and
completion
• Encourage quality programs and services
• Facilitate dialogue among higher education stakeholders to improve higher education policy and practice
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MHEC Cross-State Tuning project• Why psychology and marketing?
• Have not been tuned previously in the U.S.• Among the most popular majors and degree programs (and
a “default” or “fall back” major for many)• Programs at the two-year, four-year, and graduate levels (or
so we thought)• Multiple, varied career/graduate paths• Broad range of application of knowledge and developed
skills• Psychology – among the disciplines most likely to lead to
hostile questioning from family members as to what kind of job could possibly be secured with such a major
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MHEC Tuning Steps• “Pre-launch” meetings with SHEEO agency reps and
other key individuals in the three states• Involvement of SHEEO agencies, system personnel,
and independent associations to identify faculty participants
• Identification of project evaluator and evaluative framework
• Opening convening in November 2011• Monthly workgroup meetings January to June 2012• Engage SHEEO agency personnel as supporters and
cheerleaders• Presentations (with faculty) during state visits and at
conferences
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MHEC Tuning Team StructureTuning group composition
• Fifteen faculty on each disciplinary team (psychology and marketing) – 5 from each state
• Tenured or senior faculty engaged in the teaching of undergraduates
• Sector representation:oOne from a public research universityoOne from a public comprehensive universityoTwo from a public two-year degree granting collegeoOne from a private/independent college
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Progress To Date• Workgroups have completed Steps 1 and 2:
• Draft of general/core competencies and learning outcomes for (each) degree level
• Draft of discipline specific competencies and learning outcomes for (each) degree level
• Mapping of career pathways• The workgroups are now focused on gathering
stakeholder feedback on their drafted competencies and learning outcomes
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Observations and Challenges
• Enhanced awareness and heightened respect for colleagues at other types of institutions
• Personal enjoyment and professional growth of faculty
• Groups need more time to get to know each other before diving into work
• Role differences in psychology: researchers vs. clinicians (and APS vs. APA)
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Observations and Challenges
• What to do with existing curriculum and outcomes statements from professional associations (such as the APA)
• The associate degree problem• The master’s degree problem!• General/core vs. specific/disciplinary competencies
• Appropriate role for SHEEO agencies as well as the project staff (“bottom up” vs. “top down” approach)
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Post-Secondary Participation in TexasFall 2011
Total Fall 2011
Public Universities 568,938
Public Two-Year Colleges 752,986
All Health-Related 23,903
Independent Col. & Univ. 123,690
Career Colleges 81,270
Total 1,550,787
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What is the Tuning Texas Initiative?• Faculty-driven
process; faculty work together across sectors
• Includes input from students, graduates, and employers
• Focus is first on the discipline, then on courses
Faculty
Documents
EmployersStudents/
Graduates
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• Tuning 2010 (finalized):• Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
• Tuning 2011 (final drafts):• Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering,
Biology, Chemistry
• Tuning 2012 (forthcoming):• Mathematics, Business, Computer and Information
Sciences, Management Information Systems
Programs Tuned/Being Tuned
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Map of Institutions with Faculty on Texas Tuning Committees
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Example:Tuning of Civil Engineering
• The content of the following slides has been extracted from the May 2011 document, “Tuning of Civil Engineering.”
• The full document is available online at: www.thecb.state.tx.us/Tuning_Engineering_in_Texas
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CE Expertise Profile
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CE Key Competencies Diagram
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CE Employment Profile
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Participants to Date in the Voluntary Course Transfer Agreements Pertaining to Bachelor of Science Degrees in
Civil, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering
For more information, please visit: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/tuningtexas
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Is Tuning Making a Difference in the Culture of Higher Education?
The Utah Experience
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Past and Present
• 2009- History and Physics (associate and bachelor’s)
• 2012- History and Physics (masters and secondary education)- General Education Mathematics- Elementary Education
• Common Core State Standards
- Degree Qualifications Profile
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Principle
• Faculty Driven (bureaucrats out of way)• Muddling (collaboration)
- Time and space for intellectual exploration
• Learning is not linear• Add depth and coherence
• To what students learn• To how students learn• To how they demonstrate learning• To how we teach
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Outgrowth of Tuning
• Business Innovation Factory
• American Historical Association
• Convergence with other projects• Quality Collaboratives (AAC&U)• Western Interstate Passport Initiative (WICHE)
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Next Steps
• Integrate into department learning outcomes.
• Work more closely with regional, specialized accreditation.
• Change conversation from seat time and credit to learning outcomes and competencies.
• Introduce Degree Qualifications Profile:- Transparency and coherence in discipline along Essential Learning Outcomes
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Challenges
• Continuity - Faculty change roles
- Part-time faculty
- Elementary Education
- Time• Learning takes practice• Learning is not linear
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Is Tuning making a difference in the culture
of higher education?• Nascent
• Too early to make definitive statements
• Have Faith!
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For more information…
For more information on Tuning USA, please visit: http://www.tuningusa.org/
For more specific information on the Tuning Texas Initiative, please visit: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/TuningTexas
Tuning USA Guide: http://www.tuningusa.org/Library.aspx