The Boards of Examiners (BoEs) are expected to assure the quality of assessment, and in this way contribute to educational processes. In this role, they have to interact with various other stakeholders and to collaborate with other educational actors. These interactions might lead to conflicts and ambiguities: who is responsible for a particular task/process? How should the division of labour be organised? At what stage do we involve which party?

This workshop provides an introduction to the RACI matrix as a tool for the delineation of roles and responsibilities. We start with a brief explanation of the RACI framework and its origins and application to project management. Afterwards, the participants are invited to apply the tool to the assessment practices taking place within their faculties. In small groups, they have to delineate the role of the BoEs for several tasks: starting from basic and static and moving on to complex and dynamic (cyclical or year-long) processes such as the work on the Educational and Exam Regulations. Throughout the training, numerous examples are given from the practice of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), which worked on a large-scale RACI matrix together with the Management in 2016-2017. The participants receive in-depth insight into various FASoS practical examples (the RACI charts) and the final product (the RACI memorandum).

About the trainer
Elissaveta Radulova is an Associate Professor at FASoS, where het area of expertise is Public Policy and Good Governance. Since 2011 she is heavily engaged with educational management and organizational affairs most notably as Chair of the Board of Examiners (2012-2018), Ed-Lab Liaison (2016-2017), Employability Coordinator (2018-2019), and Programme Director of the BA in European Studies (2019-2022). As Chair of the FASoS BoE, her task was to transform the BoE from a bookkeeper to a quality assurance actor. In this context, she was in charge of drafting the BoE Statute and of organizing the proper delineation of work and responsibilities regarding the quality assurance of assessment practices (using a RACI matrix).

Duration
1x 3-hour session on location at EDLAB

Contact the organiser
EDLAB Educational Services

Costs
EDLAB is happy to offer this course to you free of charge.  Please note however that we have paid to develop and offer this session together with the trainers, so if you sign up but cannot attend, we would greatly appreciate it if you could give us at least 4 days’ notice so that we can advertise your spot to others who may be interested.  Failing to turn up or cancelling at the last minute may result in your department being charged the cost price (please contact us for more details should you need to cancel).

EDLAB reserves the right to postpone this event should a minimum of 6 participants not be reached.