When A.C.T. secondary colleges opened in 1976 they constituted the
first government senior secondary system in Australia to design their
own curricula and assess their own students under the general direction
of their own college boards and within broad system guidelines.
An Accrediting Agency was set up to approve the courses of study
devised by the colleges, determine assessment procedures, arrange
certification of students' attainments and negotiate acceptance of
students' qualifications with tertiary institutions and employers.
All but one of Canberra's private schools teaching to senior
secondary level also joined this accreditation system.
This field study traces the genesis and development of the A.C.T.
schools accreditation system, and looks in detail at its implementation
at system and college level.
After a brief introduction there is an outline of innovation principles
relevant to the topic. To avoid repetition the literature review and
the development of the accreditation system are treated together in
Chapters 3 and A. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with the establishment and
implementation of accreditation, with particular emphasis on the
Accrediting Agency and Dickson College (used as an example of the
system at college level). In 1979 a major review of the work of
the Agency was undertaken by the Selby Smith Committee; Chapter 7
analyses the recommendations of that Committee. The final chapter
of this study examines some of the major issues of accreditation,
particularly its innovative aspects.
Although this study analyses the accreditation system in some detail,
it is intended to be descriptive rather than evaluative. Information
was obtained mainly from primary sources: official reports, studies
and papers written by participants, surveys conducted in the colleges,
and original documents. Interviews were conducted but were used
mainly as a check on written information.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219110 |
| Date | January 1980 |
| Creators | Lane, Ronald J., n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Ronald J. Lane |
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