Outcome Measures

Compliance with established standards has been the benchmark of evaluating all kinds of academic, professional, commercial and administrative endeavours over the last one hundred years or so. Academic awards, for example, have been gained by passing examinations specific to that discipline of study. The awards themselves have been subject to accreditation procedures, often established by both internal and external agencies, which attempted to establish whether the course had the relevant subjects in just the correct amounts and, of course, with proper sequencing. Examinations had to be rigorous but fair and the accreditation team, assessing the educational program, was required to be given open access to all records of syllabus and curricula staff, student and examination details and more, much more, as everything had to measure up against an established standard.