Postgraduate taught portfolio review – the cluster approach, non-subject-based grouping of courses and relevant performance indicators

• Published in: Perspectives (Association of University Administrators (U.K.)) Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 98 - 105
• Main Author: Konstantinidis-Pereira, Alicja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 03.07.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Classification; Course Descriptions; Curricula; Departments; Education portfolios; Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Graduate studies; Higher education; Marketing; Multivariate Analysis; Performance Based Assessment; Portfolios (Background Materials); Statistical Analysis; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; Universities; United Kingdom (England)

This paper summarises a new method of grouping postgraduate taught (PGT) courses introduced at Oxford Brookes University as a part of a Portfolio Review. Instead of classifying courses by subject, the new cluster approach uses statistical methods to group the courses based on factors including flexi...