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report 5: Learning Outside the Box!
The ViTaL Development & Research Programme
Report No. 5
How can the language, concepts, principles, assessment and practice of learning power add measurable value to already high academic achievement in a Malaysian Sixth Form College and assist its students in their preparations for life and learning at universities in the United Kingdom?
This is the Report of an ELLI Research and Development Project undertaken in partnership with Kolej Yayasan UEM, at Lembah Beringin in the State of Selangor in central Malaysia, between January 2005 and September 2006.
Kolej Yayasan UEM is a residential Sixth Form College occupying a fine, expansive campus in a rural setting in central Malaysia. It has typically about 40 teaching and academic student support staff and between 190 and 230 students in each of its two year groups at any one time. The College has a distinctive intake of high-attaining students preparing for university entrance.
In 2003-4, the Chief Executive and new Headmaster were asking such questions as 'How can we improve on an outstanding record of success in exam outcomes? How do we add value to such a high-achieving intake? How might we measure that added value, when top grades are already being attained? Are we preparing our students effectively for a higher level of education and different learning culture at university?' Are we doing enough to promote a pro-active, independent-minded, critically curious attitude to learning in students whose indigenous culture is characterised by a tendency towards diligent but unquestioning acceptance of authority and regulation?
The College was already offering a wide range of student support, citizenship and extra-curricular activities to meet these objectives when the Chief Executive, Dr Muhammad Ikmal, heard about ELLI and decided that an ELLI R&D project might offer a practical way to take the College forward with these strategic issues.
ViTaL partnerships was engaged in August 2004 to design and manage an action-enquiry project, using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI), its concepts, assessments and strategies, to explore its impact on and capacity to illuminate these issues.
The project's broad aims, therefore, were to:
- to introduce the concepts, assessment and learning strategies of Learning Power into KYUEM
- to compare findings with those for similar groups in UK
- to evaluate the applicability of ELLI to SE Asian culture, using KYUEM as a Case Study.
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