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The most challenging
issues are the
Jimma, T. T., &
implementation gaps,
Tarekegn, W. M. The forces triggering
The article explored the 4 senior managers and 6 particularly the absence
(2016). The prevailing curriculum reform are mostly
nature of undergraduate (2 Women & 4 Men) of a functional
practices and external, providing little room
curriculum reform in academic staff members, enactment zone for
challenges of for internal factors and the
Ethiopian higher 2 educational quality The researcher conducted teachers. This happens
curriculum reform in Qualitative development of curriculum
3 education in relation to experts at the University of interviews with the because conformity and
Ethiopian higher case study design from within the institution.
student-centered Ethiopia, and another 2 participants. uncertainty, as well as
education: Views and The prevailing reform
pedagogy and external education quality the rapidity of change,
responses from within. applied a government’s
continuous assessment experts from the Federal have created tension for
Australian Journal of controlled, centralized, and a
method. MOE and HERQA academics when
Teacher Education, one-size-fits-all model.
implementing the
41(10), 87-106.
reforms in the
classrooms.
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The obvious flaw with
the approaches used is
that they produce
subjective data not
objective data about the
Three-thousand three- frequency of occurrence
The study explored on
hundred and thirty-six of curriculum factors
the following questions:
Smith, C., Ferns, S., & (3,336) students from nine about the students’
Russell, L. (2016). What curriculum factors Australian universities abilities. Thus, a future
Measures were based on
Designing work- can be validly measured were surveyed, giving strong test of these
students self-reporting of Robust measures of both
integrated learning to operationalize work- 2200 useable (complete) results will be to
both curriculum curriculum factors and
placements that integrated learning results for the present conduct similar studies
characteristics and employment-readiness
improve student curricula design? Mixed methods, study. Nine-hundred and that use objective
employability skill factors are possible and that
6 employability: Six qualitative and ninety-seven (997) of measures of these
What measures validly acquisition. A survey the curriculum factors are
facets of the quantitative these students had had a things.
operationalize the instrument was designed associated with students’
curriculum that matter. placement during their
concept of ‘employment and deployed using employment readiness It looked only at six
Asia-Pacific Journal of studies. The majority of
readiness’? SurveyMonkey outcomes. dimensions of WIL
Cooperative these students are in the
(www.surveymonkey.com) curriculum design that
Education, 17(2), 197- What predictive 18-30 age group (73%),
students can
211. relationships exist female (72%), studying
experience;
between these two sets on-campus (75%) and
collaborative design
of measures? studying full-time (80%).
activities between
university coordinators
and employers or other
workplace
representatives were
not considered.
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