About Quality and Progress System

Why and how has QPS been developed? 

QPS is a development initiative based on cross-faculty needs and national requirements. QPS is the result of several years of workshops, surveys, and meetings with faculty teachers to align local needs with the current international knowledge and development landscape.

For the UKÄ quality review, systematicity is needed to quality-assure and develop the programs. The institutions' internal work to secure quality is crucial and something that UKÄ examines.

QPS is used to facilitate educational work based on current research in medical and higher education pedagogy. Another purpose is to unite and simplify collaboration already during the educational period. We have much in common between the programs that can be utilized when we have infrastructure that supports it.

Key Concepts:

• Cohesion and context within the faculty
• Collaboration within and between programs
• Highlighting competence development
• Progression and program perspective
• Quality and responsibility
• Autonomy and meaningfulness

With the help of QPS, we can work operationally and continuously with learning, quality, and assessment. It creates conditions for systematic feedback, examination, and quality assurance of education based on the various goals of the programs. The system also enables follow-up and analysis of goal fulfillment, helping us ensure that we measure what we actually want to measure.

Learning and Assessment

We aim to facilitate self-centered learning and learning with many assessment opportunities where possibilities for various forms of feedback are collected and visualized to contribute to long-term training and development.

Everything is gathered in one place in the system so that you as a student can follow your progression. As a student, you have increased opportunities to systematically overview feedback from various forms of assessments.

Background to QPS

Grundudbildningsnämnden (GUN) decided to procure a new digital system for the Medical Faculty's programs. It was part of a long-term process of working with digitization based on educational needs.

"How does the faculty know which learning objective is the most difficult to achieve? Are any outcomes in the programs set too low?"

These are questions that UKÄ and the university want answers to in the quality work being conducted. Without adequate digital support, answering these questions is very labor-intensive. While the faculty has been working on long-term development, there is also a new national evaluation model that harmonizes well with the ongoing work. UKÄ wants the faculty to describe and justify with concrete examples how the faculty systematically ensures and follows up the quality of the programs. With QPS as a tool, this can be done continuously and systematically without additional work. Therefore, QPS becomes an important part of working with quality at the faculty. Lund University also has a quality policy. Many of these aspects will be able to be followed up with the help of QPS.

QPS and Canvas

The Faculty of Medicine has decided to use the two systems, Canvas and QPS, together to utilize what each system does best. Note that some programs have decided to use only QPS. 

Canvas is a leading Learning Management System (LMS) considered user-friendly with many built-in features to facilitate communication with students, creation of teaching materials such as videos, and accessibility for disabilities.

QPS is a modern system whose strengths lie primarily in various types of assessments, written exams, and relating them to the student's goals. It also provides opportunities to perform advanced analyses of, for example, students' achievements and progression in relation to program and course outcomes, both individually and at the group level.

This means that each course will have a course area in Canvas and one in QPS.

QPS is used for

• Written exams
• Form-based assessments
• Assignments
• Follow-up of results and progression
• Analysis

Canvas is used for

• Communication
• Course information