ECTS TEMPUS PROJECT

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ECTSTEMPUS PROJECT ECTS in BiHTuzla, June
2005

• Michel Richter
• Academic Training Association

Exploring ECTS in practice
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ECTS4 aspects

1. Number of ECTS credits per course
2. Grading per student
3. Information Package
4. Transcript of Records

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Calculating ECTS per course

• TOP-DOWN
• 60 credits student workload during 1 academic
  year
• 1500-1800 hours per year
• 1 ECTS 25 30 student working hours

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Calculating ECTS per course

• Category of workload hours per day Total hrs
  for course of duration 10 DAYS
• Class hours 2 (x 10) 20
• Fieldwork 5
• Reading (outside class) 2 (x 10) 20
• Assignments 0.5 (x 10) 5
• Preparation for examinations 8
• Examinations 2
• TOTAL 60 hrs
• ECTS Total 60 / 30 2 ECTS

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Grading

• Local/national grade ECTS grade
• Relative to their peers in the course
• Elements of examination statistical data
• PASS normal distribution
• A (10), B (25), C (30), D (25), E (10)
• UNSUCCESSFUL FX, F

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Information Package (IP)

• Institution
• Degree Programmes
• General info for students
• Relative level of difficulty of a course

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Transcript of Records

• Actual Transfer between institutions
• Info Sending Institution
• Info Student
• Info Receiving Institution
• Listing of 1) Courses (titles code)
• 2) Course duration
• 3) Local/national grade
• 4) ECTS grade
• 5) ECTS credits

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Exploring ECTS

• Please calculate ECTS draft data for IP for a
  course you teach
• Please inventorise your remarks questions
• (Use ECTS Exploration Form)