About the Quality Lab

About the Quality Lab

The Career Guidance Quality Lab was originally developed as a professional learning resource for career guidance practitioners in Norway.

The Quality Lab is a digital space for career guidance practitioners who want to focus on quality in career guidance supported by the Norwegian National Quality Framework for Career Guidance. Here you will find resources and tools designed to inspire reflection and professional development.

How to Navigate the Quality Lab

User Menu

The menu-button with stripes in the top right corner of the homepage is called the user menu. This menu gives you an overview of all the main elements that make up the Quality Lab, and you can easily click straight to where you want to go.

Logo Element

In the top left corner, you’ll find the home button: the Quality Lab logo. This will always take you back to the homepage.

Search Field

 Use the search field to find a specific resource you know by name. Or use it to explore the content by checking different main elements and sub-elements.

Main Elements of the Quality Lab

Area

The Quality Lab is structured around four main areas: The four main themes of the quality framework: Ethics, Career Competence, Competence Standards, and Quality Assurance.

You can select an area and go directly to its main page, or check a theme in the search field to find resources related to it.

Category

 This shows you the type of resource. Is it a video, a professional presentation, or perhaps a longer lecture? For example, you can check “video” in the search field if you want access to all video resources available in the lab.

Series

 In the international Quality Lab you’ll find one series at the moment: The Guidance room. In the Norwegian version of the quality lab, you will find several series. The series group content in a natural sequence, designed for use over time and ideally together with others. .