From Need Analysis to ELT Study Program Learning Outcome Development: Meeting the Standards of the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA)

摘要

Learning outcome, within the context of higher education, is the most important element in the curriculum of a study program because all courses, learning activities, and assessment methods should be alligned with the learning outcomes. This study reports a research on mapping the program learning outcomes of the B.Ed in English Language Education of Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP), Indonesia, as a part of the ongoing research and development to improve the quality of the program, particularly, to meet the standards proposed by the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA). The research began with investigating stakeholders' needs on appropriate learning outcomes, and it then continued with the evaluation of the existing study program's learning outcomes and reformulation the learning outcomes based on the AUN-QA criteria. The data in the research were collected through distributing questionnaires to stakeholders, studying existing learning outcomes and relevant documents concerning ELT curriculum of higher education and AUN-QA criteria. The main finding indicates that there are some gaps between the stakeholders' needs and the learning outcomes in the existing curriculum. The reformulation of the learning outcomes was done to fulfill stakesholders' needs and AUN-QA criteria.