A messy day!

Youka and Majid sent me to the Uni around 6am and they went to work as a volunteer somewhere for a running race.
I think I finalized my RQs in my mind:

• How change agents manage to bring about standards into curriculum?
• To what extent the current curriculum reflects standards?

I thought I probably add more sub-questions to each of them later. I need to conclude this part ASAP. 

I started to look at standards and how we can manage them to insert them in our program. I found this book: Succeeding with standards (http://0-site.ebrary.com.library.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/docDetail.action?docID=10044792&p00=succeeding%20standards) 

Although it talks about standards for school, but it can applicable for universities as well. It says to have an effective practice for attainment of standards, we need: 

• Access

1. Content
2. Instructor
3. Time
4. Resources
5. A safe environment

• Instruction

1. Knowledge and skills
2. Variety of instructor role
3. Multiple students role
4. application and reflection
5. Adaptive learning environments

• Assessment and Reporting

1. Multiple assessment strategies
2. Criteria for assessment
3. Assessment that informs instructions & guides student learning
4. Student involvement in assessment
5. Effectively communicating assessment information

• Connections 

1. Interdisciplinary connections
2. Relevance
3. Family and community collaboration

• Best practice in the field of science, mathematics and technology

I thought I can start to make my questions based on these themes. However, the idea is not totally fitted in my mind, still very vague...