Each course at Aarhus BSS is associated with one or more exams, which aim to evaluate the students’ academic level. Academic learning outcomes for the assessment are stated in the description of qualifications for the individual course.
Lecturers are responsible for developing appropriate types of examination and assessment strategies that support the learning outcomes for the individual course, and the departments and the board of studies ensure that there is appropriate alignment between teaching and examination. In addition, appropriate variation in the types of examination is also ensured.
lecturers can get help to choose forms of instruction and examination from the Centre for Educational Development (CED).
After each examination period, the directors of studies can access lists of grades and failure rates in Power BI. This helps them keep an eye on whether there are systematic issues with specific courses or types of examination that need to be discussed by the boards of studies and with relevant teaching staff.
The dean provides guidelines for the organisation and the development of teaching activities and administers possible strategic funds.
The board of studies is responsible for assuring and developing the quality of degree programmes and teaching activities, approving learning outcomes for individual courses and preparing and revising the overall objectives of programmes. The board of studies also approves the teaching plans.
Organisation of the degree programme and its elements is in close collaboration between the academic environments, the board of studies, the director of studies and the head of department.
The head of department is responsible for ensuring staffing and the proportion of teaching by researchers on the department's degree programmes. Moreover, the head of department engages in dialogue with the director of studies regarding the assignment of teaching hours. Every course has a course coordinator, and the responsibility for the course (including the quality assurance of the course) always lies with an internal academic staff member, who conducts research within the field in question.
On degree programmes that branch across several departments, the programme committee advises the boards of studies and the department managing teams on the development of the programme, the course elements and the proper staffing of lecturers.
The teaching staff must formulate clear and realistic learning outcomes for the courses in accordance with the programme’s qualification profile and make the learning objectives clear to the students. The students’ achievement of the established learning outcomes is facilitated through the organisation and implementation of appropriate forms of instruction and learning activities. lecturers incorporate the most recent research within their field into their teaching and engage in dialogue with their colleagues about the teaching.
The students are expected to put a significant and responsible work effort into their education and the teaching activities offered. The students’ comments and general feedback on the teaching are included in the development of teaching activities.
The practical organisation of the teaching activities is handled by the Aarhus BSS Studies Administration, which publishes the teaching plan and timetables for the individual degree programmes on the relevant platforms.
The Centre for Educational Development offers research-based counselling and advice for the academic environments, the board of studies and the management on teaching development, including didactic choices in the course administration and planning, alignment between teaching and exams, study progression and implementation of Educational IT.
Teaching evaluations form the basis for the assessment and possible adaptation of the individual courses and the programme as a whole.
