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Curriculum Coherence & Alignment
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 17 institutions with enough responses. Academic domain mean: 7.9.
Institution is a meaningful factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 1.6 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience.
What we ask
“My courses build on one another in a clear and logical way.”
What students say, and why
Swings between filler and repetition versus too little depth; relevance varies by trade.
"It swings between extremes: some things need more depth, while others are repeated a lot."
"Too-long slides, too much filler and nothing concrete."
The “red thread”: topics connect, and theory fits practice.
"The red thread is that everything connects one way or another."
"The link between theory and practice has been good."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
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How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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