The UP Diliman Office for the Advancement of Teaching under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA-OAT) in partnership with the Quality Assurance Office (QAO) conducted two runs of the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) Workshop – the 1st on September 30-October 2, 2024 at the UP College of Law and the 2nd on November 7-9, 2024 at the UP Institute for Small-Scale Industries (ISSI) and National Engineering Center (NEC). Thirty-eight (38) faculty members from the different academic clusters of UP Diliman – Arts and Letters, Management and Economics, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences and Law – attended the workshops. Members of the UP Diliman Quality Assurance Committee (QAC), namely Prof. Evangeline Amor, Prof. Susan Festin, Prof. Ruth Lusterio-Rico, Prof. Gladys Nocon, and Prof. Amihan Bonifacio-Ramolete, also attended the workshops.
On both runs of the workshop, UP Diliman Chancellor Edgardo Carlo Vistan II welcomed the participants and presented UP Diliman’s vision, mission, goals, and objectives, QAO Director Prof. Aura Matias shared UP’s philosophy of education, and graduate attributes, while OAT Director Prof. Ivy Suan showed results of the training needs analysis (TNAs) and led the leveling of expectations.
Prof. Rosella Moya-Torrecampo facilitated both runs of the interactive workshop. Day 1 covered clarifying gaps in OBE Understanding, a refresher on OBE’s basic precepts on program design, and latest developments and issues in curriculum design. Day 2 covered reviewing and aligning Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) and Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs). Day 3 covered aligning CLOs with Learning Level Outcomes (LLOs), Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs), and Student Achievement Profiles (SAPs) in the context of Teaching and Learning Environment (TLE). Participants were given homework such as undertaking various analyses and an OCAI (organizational culture assessment instrument) study, answering learner-type tests and drawing insights, and drafting lesson plans. Each day was filled with activities and icebreakers that supplemented and enhanced the learning experience.
The workshop features hands-on group sessions to gain practical knowledge on risk management.
At the end of Day 3, participants presented their outputs – learning assessments of a program, course, or lesson aligned with CLOs, PLOs, and Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs). The workshops were closed by syntheses of main takeaways – the 1st run by UP Diliman Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Prof. Maria Vanessa Lusung-Oyzon and the 2nd run by Director Suan.
The purpose of the workshops is to assist the academic units in revising their curricula and in developing their Self-Assessment Reports (SAR) by providing the basics of outcomes-based education (OBE), practicing the articulation of expected learning outcomes, describing the components of an outcomes-based syllabus, and sharing practical tips and best practices in syllabus design.
The UP Diliman Quality Assurance (UPD QAO) brought together 26 Quality Assurance Officers from various degree-granting units (DGUs) of UP Diliman at the recently held QA Clinic at the Training Hall of the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) last September 09, 2024
University officials and academic and non-academic staff from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and Central Mindanao University (CMU) visited the University of the Philippines Diliman last August 9, 2024 to meet with degree-granting units (DGUs) and the Quality Assurance Office (QAO) to know more about QA structures in higher education and best practices for external assessment.
The UP System Ad Hoc Committee on Quality Assurance Capacity Building (QACB) and the UP Diliman Quality Assurance Office (UPD QAO) collaborated to deliver three batches of Self-Assessment Report (SAR) Preparation Workshops in May 2024.
This year’s QA Week, organized by the UPD Quality Assurance Office, was anchored in two symbolisms: gears in synchronized motion in an efficient operating system.
The UP Diliman Quality Assurance Office (UPD QAO) held a week-long celebration last April 29 to May 3, 2024 to mark its fourth year anniversary.
The Bachelor of Science of Industrial Engineering (BS IE) program of the University of the Philippines Diliman completed the three-day accreditation visit conducted by the Philippine Technological Council-Accreditation and Certification Board for Engineering and Technology (PTC-ACBET) last April 24-26, 2024.
