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1.8 Christine Ashton - AUQA Good Practice Ddatabase
1.8 Christine Ashton - AUQA Good Practice Ddatabase
1.8 Christine Ashton - AUQA Good Practice Ddatabase
Outline
1. Overview
2. What is a Good Practice?
3. Selection and Refereeing
4. Template and Topics
5. Impact of GPDB
6. Discussion or Questions?
1. Overview
Good Practice
A good practice is a system or activity
commended through national audit
processes by AUQA as adding value for the
auditee and its stakeholders that can be
adapted and transferred to other
organisational settings.
Good Practice Database (GPDB)
• academic online platform
• contributes to sharing experiences
• serves improvement purposes
• collaborative project
• searchable collection
• verified Good Practices
• with the permission of the auditees
• made freely available
• via the AUQA Good Practice Database
Why GPDB?
• felt need
• no publicly accessible Good Practice
database
• with information about actual and verified
Good Practices
• across a comprehensive range of HE activity
• to assist improvement efforts
• an appropriate acknowledgement,
domestically and to the world
• a key resource for HE practitioners and
managers
• first point of reference for Auditees seeking
information on good practices
• launched on 27 November 2003
• accessed over 152,714 times
• AUQA views this as one of the most
effective means of enhancing quality.
2. What is a Good Practice?
• ‘Good Practices’ as opposed to ‘Best
Practices’
• the practice is able to be defined in terms of
a complete Approach‐Deployment‐Results‐
Improvements (ADRI) cycle followed for
AUQA audits, even though it may not
necessarily be assessed as ‘good’ in all ADRI
dimensions
• the practice has been demonstrated as
providing benefit to stakeholders
• benchmarking or other external points of
reference indicate that the practice and
consequential results are superior to most
comparators
• the practice is fully understood (it is verified
that the outcomes are a deliberate
consequence of the practice rather than
serendipity)
• the success of the practice has been
independently verified (as could happen via
the audit process or via reviews).
3. Selection and Refereeing
• Source — AUQA Audit Reports
• The Audit Directors identify and select
commendations in the Audit Report
• Submission of good practices to the AUQA
GPDB is by invitation only
• Submissions are to be made in a template
• Each Good Practice, having been prepared
in accordance with the required template,
is submitted to external referees for a
final ‘confirmation’
Refereeing Criteria
• it reads coherently and provides sufficient
information to assist a User in their
improvement efforts;
• it is potentially transferable, and promulgation
of the practice would add value to, and be in
the best interests of, the HE sector; and
• as resubmitted, the Good Practice is neither
significantly different from, nor of lesser
quality than, the audited practice as originally
reported in the AUQA Audit Report.
Australian Universities Quality Agency
Only evidence used to make these
determinations:
• selected Good Practice in the template format
• any accompanying attachments
• the original Audit Report
• it is not a re‐audit. Referees do not judge
whether the selected Good Practice is actually
“good”
• they do not compare one selected Good
Practice against another.
4. Template and Topics
Good Practice Format
• standardised formatting — template
• template contains the following sub‐headings:
• Goal, Context, Practice, Evidence of Success,
Resources Required and Notes.
• linked to the Contributor’s institution
• contact details of an appropriate person
Topic Types
• Accreditation and Approval
• Community and Industry Engagement
• Governance
• Indigenous
• International Activities
• IT and Library
• Management Planning and Review
• Research and Consultancy
• Research Training
• Staff
• Students
• Support Services
• Teaching and Learning
Australian Universities Quality Agency
5. Impact of GPDB
5. Impact of GPDB
5. Impact of GPDB
5. Impact of GPDB
5. Impact of GPDB
• As a consultant and as a member of IEAA PD
committee I often use this database as a resource.
It is a great starting point for providers.
• Good provider of potential benchmarking partners
• Keep them coming. Although all of us are very
busy, these are most useful contributions and
highly valued and appreciated! Thank you so much.
• The only improvement would be more examples of
good practice.
6. Now search to GPDB
on the Web!
http://www.auqa.edu.au