Generic Skills @ CQU

Welcome to our discussion of generic skills and graduation characteristics at CQU. From this site you can access tools for identifying and mapping CQU Graduate Characteristics in programs and courses. The five-step process is outlined and a survey instrument for gathering the initial information is included. Sample reporting designs are also provided to illustrate how the 'snapshot' of a program or course may look.

CQU's Generic Skills

Tools for mapping

In addition to providing the mapping tools, this site is also designed to provide a space where examples of staff activities in the area of 'Graduate Characteristics at CQU' can be presented. CQU staff are invited to provide samples of their activities, in and around the topics of 'graduate characteristics', 'generic skills' and 'graduate attributes'. If staff are interested in providing materials for this site, please email them to the Staff Development Unit.

Examples of CQU practice

Useful URLs

In addition to the above CQU resources, the Griffith Graduate Project Team has given us permission to link to their extensive collection of practical, "how to" resources to help staff to embed graduate skills into the curriculum. The Griffith Graduate Toolkit contains resources covering:

Teamwork
Oral Communication
Written Communication
Information Literacy
Critical Evaluation
Problem-solving
Professional Skills
Creativity & Innovation
Ethical Behaviour and Social Responsibility

You are invited to view these resources for ideas that may aid you in developing your own models and strategies for teaching CQU Graduate Characteristics.

The B Factor Project: Understanding academic staff beliefs about graduate attributes

Visit The B Factor Project website for information about a nationally funded discipline-based project on academic staff beliefs about graduate attributes. This is a two-year project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council, led by CQUniversity.

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The B Factor Project

An ALTC funded project on beliefs about graduate attributes.
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Assessment Beyond Intuition (Videostream)

Presented by: Associate Professor Jan Orrell (Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education)
Highlights issues about assessment in general and marking in particular.
This presentation is especially relevant to early career academics and sessional staff.
>To view, click here.

>Other useful sites are listed in our Learning and Teaching Resources section.