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Learn about Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA) in the UK, where learners negotiate learning outcomes through a staged process to reflect on their progress. The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) champions inclusive learning and equality of opportunity.
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Delivering Validation Existing practices and methods in the United Kingdom The WEA is committed to equality of opportunity and inclusive learning
General comments on the UK perspective • Increased dominance of the Skills agenda which values accreditation over validation • Reduction in the number of state-funded providers of informal and non-formal learning • Employers (via Local Enterprise Partnerships) have greater say over all funding for post-compulsory education
Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement in non-accredited learning (RARPA) A staged process designed to: • Focus on and promote the needs and interests of learners • Allow for negotiation of the content and outcomes of learning programmes • Encourage learners to reflect on and recognise their own progress and achievement
RARPA • Promote and support informed learner self-assessment, peer assessment and dialogue about learning between students and tutors • Enables the achievement of planned learning objectives and learning outcomes not specified at the outset to be recognised and valued
The FIVE stages of RARPA • Aims appropriate to an individual learner of groups of learners • Initial assessment to establish the learner’s starting point • Identification of appropriately challenging learning objectives • Recognition and recording of progress and achievement during the programme (formative assessment) • End of programme learner self-assessment, tutor summative assessment, review of overall progress and achievement
About the WEA • The largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in the UK • In 2011/12 the WEA taught over 9,500 courses for 74,500 adult students from across England and Scotland
WEA in numbers • Over 3000 volunteers including support workers and classroom assistants • 2000 qualified tutors • 9,500 courses or 227,235 hours of learning • 60,000 members • 420 core staff members
Links to the past The WEA’s business “is not to organise classes for whom it may be easiest to attract. It is to create a demand for education in individuals and bodies who at the moment may be unconscious of its importance to them, but who, if a tolerable society is to be created, must be won to believe in it.” R. H. TawneyHistorian & President 1928-1944