Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500261 Education Studies | OB | 3 | 1 |
The course "Organizational Development of Educational Institutions" is part of set of courses aimed at providing a minimum specialization in the field or itinerary of training institutions administration and management. Its location in the curricular framework of the Education Studies degree implies that students have acquired through courses taken previously, competencies related to organizational structure and functioning, relational dynamics that occur in them and the planning and monitoring systems used. Students will make the most of this course when they have achieved the competences and knowledge outlined above.
This course, located at the fifth semester (3rd year) of the Education Studies degree, part of the subject "Coordination and management of educational institutions", and is complemented by the course " Direction and Leadership in Educational Institutions ". While this first course focuses on innovation and change processes in educational organisations, the second course focuses on the role of managers as change agents. Thus respond to the overall objective of the Education Studies degree, which refers to design and develop projects and processes of intervention in educational contexts. Also along with the course "Direction and Leadership in Educational Institutions ", are the foundational base of the mention/specialization "Socio-educational institutions and training management”.
Part of the contents for institutions administration and management have been developed in the following courses: "Education and educational contexts", "Organization and groups" and "Design, monitoring and evaluation of plans and programs". Also, students should consider this course as complementary to some other courses developed during the seventh and eighth semester (4th year): "Supervision and educational inspection", "Evaluation of schools and teachers" and "Management and Development of Human Resources in Organisations ", aimed to start on specific aspects of the specialization in training organizations administration, management and leadership.
Its objectives are:
1. Understand and analyse the factors affecting organizational change.
2. Identify organizational development models.
3. Apply strategies and tools for organizational development.
4. Design interventions for organizational improvement.
BLOCK 1: Change processes in organizations.
BLOCK 2: Strategies and instruments to promote organizational change.
BLOCK 3: Development of a program of organizational change.
The formative activities of this course include on-site, supervised and autonomous activities:
The teachers will allocate approximately 15 minutes of a session so that the students can answer the surveys to evaluate the teaching performance and the evaluation of the subject.
Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public Health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVED-19.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Seminars: Analysis of documents, articles and data; analysis of videos; case resolution and elaboration of conceptual maps. | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 10, 9, 17 |
Whole-group sessions: lectures, presentation of readings, papers or documents by the students; debates and reflections over key aspects of the contents. | 30 | 1.2 | 3, 4, 8, 7, 17 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials and supervision of the tasks and activities proposed. | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 10, 9, 17 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study of the contents and preparation of the exams. Individual and group preparation of the assignments | 75 | 3 | 3, 4, 8, 7, 17 |
The evaluation of the course “Organisational Development of Educational Institutions” encompasses the achievement of the competences identified as fundamental for the course and therefore the evaluation includes continuous assessment of set activities along with consideration of students' participation, critical thinking and attitude throughout the course.The assessment carried out on this subject is continuous and final.
The continuous assessment will take into account the different content sections and their general orientation:
In case it is necessary, all the final evaluation tests will have a second chance for recovering. The dates of the evaluations will be:
In order to pass the course, the average grade must be of at least 5 and all evaluative activities must also be graded with a 5 or plus. Students who do not deliver more than 50% of the evaluation activities will be considered NOT EVALUABLE (NE).
Class attendance is mandatory, otherwise students will be considered absent (justifications only serve to explain the absence, inno case they are an exemption of the presence).
Students that during the course have had an adequate tracking of the subject and still have not achieved one of the aspects will be given the opportunity to pass the course doing additional work or redoing some of the activities. Each case will be studied individually, according to the specific situation of each student.
The results obtained in each of the assessment activities will be published in the classroom or the moodle. Given the qualifications, students can revise the marks during office hours.
The qualifications of each of the assessment activities will be published in the 20 days following the delivery. Students wishing to review the results must do so within 15 days after their publication.
To pass this course, it is necessary that the student show a good general communication skill, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the language or vehicular languages considered in the teaching guide. Linguistic correctness, drafting and filing the formal aspects of both group and individual activities will be taken into account. Students must be able to express fluently and accurately and must show a high degree of understanding of academic texts.
Copy or plagiarism, in the case of works as in the case of the exams, constitute a crime that can represent to suspend the subject:
It is recommended to follow the APA regulations (2019, 7th version): In the following link you will find a proposal of regulations: https://bit.ly/3dNEd8E
For more information on the "General Assessment Criteria and Guidelines for the Faculty of Education Sciences" approved by the COA on May 28, 2015 and modified to the Faculty Board on April 6, 2017, you can consult the following Document: http://www.uab.cat/web/informacio-academica/avaluacio/normativa-1292571269103.html
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Section/Block 1 tasks | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 10, 8, 7, 6, 9, 13, 15, 18 |
Section/Block 2 tasks | 10% | 0 | 0 | 3, 5, 10, 17 |
Section/Block 3 tasks | 30% | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 3, 8, 7, 6, 19, 9, 16, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 |
Written exams | 50% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 5, 10, 8, 7, 9, 17 |
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