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Self-evaluation guidance

Service development and Self-Evaluation for library and information services in Scottish Further Education colleges is the latest SLIC guidance for self evaluation in the sector.

It has been produced in consultation with HMIe, JISC and the college community of practice. The guidance is mapped to the latest HMIe framework which is built around ‘light touch’ review arrangements, the shift in emphasis from quality ‘improvement’ to ‘enhancement’ and the dropping of ‘grades’ in favour of ‘confidence statements’.

For the first time there is an explicit requirement on colleges to report on support services and our guidance is intended to assist with this process.

Background

This guidance is the 4th iteration prepared by SLIC to take account of changing college library environments. It supersedes Resources and Services supporting learning: a service development quality toolkit. The new guidance is available here as a PDF.

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Resources

External quality arrangements for Scotland’s colleges

This is the new HMIe framework with SLIC guidance mapped to the quality indicators in appendix 1.

Learner expectations of library services

Produced by a student member of the HMIe Review team who surveyed 50 students.

Curriculum for excellence

Official website for Scotland's new curriculum.

JISC Support for learning resource development

Information to support ICT developments.