External study on Curriculum Development projects funded in the framework of the SOCRATES programme (2004)
Type of project/activity:
An external evaluation for the Directorate General for Education
and Culture of the Curriculum Development projects funded by the SOCRATES
programme
Objectives:
The main aim of this evaluation is to provide an ex-post analysis focusing
on the Curriculum Development Projects funded between 1997/98 and 2001/02
in order to assess the extent to which the goals have been reached; to assess
the major effects on institutions, students, staff and where appropriate,
national higher education systems e.g. contributions to internationalisation
and curricular innovation; to define and identify possible models of best
practice and criteria to assist in identifying “high quality”
and “highly innovative” projects and products with a view both
to their dissemination and to identifying the criteria for transfer of practice
and/or design; to identify the general and specific obstacles to development
and implementation of CD projects and where possible solutions to overcome
them; and to make recommendations on effective ways of using programme funding.
Background:
The study was commissioned as the external evaluation of this aspect of the
SOCRATES programme and builds on the outcomes of the SOCRATES 2000 evaluation
study.
Partners:
The team is led by Vera Dotter (Sweden). The members of the team are the Folkuniversitetet
Lund (Sweden); ABCdialog (Denmark) and the European Institute of Education
and Social Policy (France).
Main activities:
The evaluation will include qualitative and quantitative approaches with:
Client:
The evaluation was commissioned by the Directorate General Education and Culture
of the European Commission
Expected outcomes, reports/documents:
The outcomes of the evaluation will be presented to the Commission in a report
in the autumn of 2004.
For more information, please contact Jean Gordon gordon@dauphine.fr
