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Components of a Helpful Recommendation

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Quality Matters online instruction rubric recommendation process.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Components of a Helpful Recommendation

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Communicate

"Talk" to your Instructor by describing improvements.
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A QM Helpful Recommendation

  • Communicates information - from the review team to the course representative.

The review should communicate

what meets standard, what doesn't, and be helpful in describing the fix

QM Helpful Recommendations

  • Have Four Components:
  • Standards, Annotation, Evidence, Characteristics.

Standards

The Quality Matters rubric describes how the standards should be implemented.
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Annotation

Annotations provide information about the standards.
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Course Evidence

Are specific examples from the course, including location and quotes.
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Characteristics

Helpful recommendations have specific characteristics to guide changes.
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These four components help the reviewer and the instructor.

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Improve the course together.

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Characteristics Guide the Reviewer

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Be Constructive

Offer solutions, don't just report problems.
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Be Specific

Give examples to illustrate the recommendations.
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Be Measurable

Recommend action that the instructor can talk to make changes, and document change.
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Be Sensitive

You are writing to a person, don't 'beat' up the course.
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Be Balanced

Provide both pluses and deltas. Describe what is good, and what needs improvement.
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This is how you communicate-

from Reviewer to Course Representative.
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