Convenor: Associate Professor Mary Peat

Presentations:

Developing T&L Benchmarking Partnerships in Engineering Education, John Currie in pdf

Nutritional Science: Establishing Benchmarking Consensus, Jennifer McArthur and Samir Samman in pdf

A collaborative Evaluation of the Teaching of First Year Chemistry and Biology at the University of Melbourne and The University of Sydney, Adrian George, Sue Franklin, Dawn Gleeson, Mary Peat, Peter Tregloan and Marcia Devlin in pdf

There is a box of references available for borrowing from Mary Peat at mary.peat@bio.usyd.edu.au for those interested in doing some further reading on the topic.

Establishing Comparable Benchmark Data - from Department of Education Tasmania, Office for Educational Review
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/oer/benchmarks/establishing.htm

Development of an "Enabling" Culture for students to learn - from the Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods The ANU - Submission to the Review of Undergraduate Education
http://www.anu.edu.au/CEDAM/policy/Sub_UG_rev.htm

Benchmark Lessons and the World Wide Web:Tools for Teaching Statistics - Andrew Schaffner et al 1996
http://www.stat.washington.edu/andrew/icls.html

Shaping the Future - New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology. A Report on the Review of Undergraduate Education from the Committee for the Review for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/stis1996/nsf96139/nsf96139.txt

Benchmarks for Cultural Change in Engineering Education March 2004
Download from Engineers Australia

A National Framework for Professional Standards for Teaching Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership Taskforce Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs, November 2003
http://www.mceetya.edu.au/verve/_resources/national_framework_file.pdf

The Benchmarking Forum was held on Friday, 29th October 2004 and was the first teaching and learning forum of its kind run by the College of Sciences and Technology, The University of Sydney.