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Demographics:

CURRICULUM COMPASS

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Please Complete This Questionnaire Choose One Best Answer That Describes Your Curricular Overview

Curriculum Compass Score:

1. How well your curriculum is optimised to changing trends? (Fashionable vs. Dogmatic)

• It readily incorporates all of the innovations that appear in literature
  It selectively opts changes as desired by local and international needs
  Curricular changes are a hurdle in producing uniform student performance outcomes
  Our curriculum is perfect to our needs

2. Is curriculum policy centered and static or ready to accept healthy change by stake holders? (Activist vs. Bureaucratic )

• The curriculum in our institution is managed and changed at the curriculum committee level in collaboration with end user input
  Curriculum is managed and changed at departmental level
  Curriculum is managed by an intermediary like the department of medical education and the end-users comply with it
  The policy of the curriculum is designed by the higher management and we have to follow strictly

3. Does your institution rely investing primarily on human resource development or infrastructure development? (Human vs. Non Human Resources)

• Our institution primarily believes in human resource and faculty development for implementing and managing curriculum
  Our institution blends technology with faculty development as a primary focus
  Our institution blends faculty development with technology as a primary focus
  Our institution primarily focuses on technology as means for content delivery and managing and reforming curriculum

4. Does your institution rely on the management to set the direction of the curriculum or the end-users and lower level content delivering / receiving stakeholders are responsible for it? (Birds vs. Ants)

• In our institution, the content and curricular management has been devolved to the end-user faculty and student level
  In our institution, the content and curricular management has been devolved to the end-user faculty and student level with an oversight by the curriculum committee
  In our institution the curricular control rests with curriculum and year committee level intermediary with minimal input from the end-users
  Curriculum is managed and its direction is decided by the higher management or university/ institution of the institution with little or no input from the end-users

5. What do you think about your institutional curriculum in terms of its relevance, comprehensiveness, completeness, application and performance outcomes? (Detective vs. Lawyer Approach)

• We as an institution are quite skeptic about our curriculum and we continuously reform to tailor needs of the end-user and mission objectives
  We as an institution are confident but occasionally reform few aspects of our curriculum to tailor needs of the end-user and mission objectives
  We as an institution are confident but by a rigorous monitoring hardly reform few aspects of our curriculum to tailor needs of the end-user and mission objectives
  We as an institution feel that we have perfect curriculum and others should follow us

6. For curricular management, assessment and implementation, the decisions are made at end-user stakeholder or higher management level? (Collaborative Vs Authoritative Decision Making)

• The decisions are collaborative with involvement of the higher and lower ranking faculty
  The decisions are made at the level of the curriculum committee and year committee
  The decisions are made at the higher administrative level
  The decisions are made solely at the institutional head level

7. To what extent curricular communication is done through various layers of administration and faculty? (Salesman Vs. Spy)

• All the stakeholders from top to bottom are well informed about all aspects of the curriculum
  Few stakeholders from top to bottom are informed about the curriculum, its reform and implementation
  Selected people in faculty and medical education department is aware about the curricular reform decisions and implementation
  Curricular decisions are taken at higher administrative level without taking faculty on board

8. How the curricular communication is done; in secretive fashion or faculty is taken on board and is educated about it (Magician Vs. Mentor Approach)

• The curriculum is thoroughly discussed and disseminated among the stake holders with due inclusion of their input
  The curriculum is primarily made by the curriculum committee and department of medical education however is periodically disseminated to the faculty and the other stakeholders
  The curriculum is managed by the department of medical education or some intermediary and occasionally disseminated to stakeholders
  The curriculum is managed at higher administrative level without interaction with faculty and lower stakeholders

9. How the curriculum is brought into action? Is it bought from some other institute or has been carefully crafted to meet the local needs (Shopping Vs Crafting)

• The curriculum has been carefully crafted under the supervision of the curriculum committee and sub-committee to meet the needs of local and international perspective
  The curriculum has been crafted locally with some portion being imported from other institute and is aligned with local needs
  The curriculum has been bought from other institute however it has been tailored to local requirements
  The curriculum has been bought from other institute and has been implemented

10. Is the curriculum quality assurance centred or public image centred? (Quality Assurance vs. Public Relations)

• The curriculum in our institution has rigorous quality assurance mechanism without any regard of the public image
  The curriculum in our institution has reasonable quality assurance with some compromise for the public image
  The curriculum in our institution has rudimentary quality assurance mechanism and is managed with primary objective of improving the institutional image
  The curriculum of our institution is managed with sole objective of improving institutional image