ANQA Expert panel Evaluation

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Needs assessmentresults

Susanna Karakhanyan, PhD

Saturday, April 14, 2012Le Mans



Expert panel

• Koblenz-Landau University

• ASIIN – German Accreditation Agency specialized inAccrediting Degree Programmes in Engineering,

Informatics, the Natural Sciences

• Wrocław University of Technology

• Université du Maine

• Link Campus University of Malta

• National Center for Professional Education QualityAssurance, Armenia

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Needs Assessment

• ESG standards

• Two types of assessment

• Quality of the needs assessment• Status of the quality assurance

• Status of the quality assurance

• Grades

• Qualitative analysis

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Grading criteria

• To what extent quality assurance mechanisms are inplace

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To what extent they are planned to be integrated• To what extent the planned activities are

implemented

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To what extent the self-assessment mechanisms arechecked for validity and reliability

• To what extent the mechanisms are improved

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technical assessment

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Clearly described

Not clearlydescribed/misinterpreted

Lack of mechanisms

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20

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Overall 42 items: 6 universities x 7 ESGs



European standards and guidelines

• Policy and procedures for quality assurance

• Statements refer to strategic plan and academic standards rather thanquality assurance policies and procedures

• Approval, monitoring and periodic review of programmes and awards

•Policies and procedures exist, but it is not clear whether they are learningoutcome driven

• Assessment of students

• Policies and procedures exist and are publicly available but it is not clearwhether they are understandable for the students and are consistentlyapplied

• Quality assurance of teaching staff

• Policies and procedures for recruitment are not clear

• Teacher assessment is done at some universities but the object forassessment is the teachers rather than methodology

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European standards and guidelines

• Learning resources and student support

• There is description, somehow it is not clear how the resourcescorrespond to the needs of the students within each academicprogramme and whether they allow achievement of thelearning outcomes

• Information system

• There is some description of the information managementsystem, however, it is not clear how the university ensuresvalidity and reliability of the information collection and uses thatinformation in decision-making.

• Public information

• There are some tools for public information provision, however,it is not clear whether the university makes the information onquality assurance publicly available.

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Challenges for the upcoming workshop

• Getting to common understanding of what quality isfor us and what it should serve

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Getting to common understanding on theapproaches to quality assurance: output vs. processapproach

• Getting to common understanding on European

Standards and Guidelines

• Launching development of university self-assessment mechanisms: mapping the activities tobe undertaken.

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Yerevan state academy of fine arts

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 2.25 2.25 3 3 2 1.75 2

Do 1.05 2.5 2.25 1 1.25 1.75 1.25

Check 0.75 1.62 1.25 0.75 0.87 1 1

Act 2 2.5 2 1.75 1.5 1.25 1.25

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Yerevan state university

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 4 3.5 3.25 3.25 2.25 3.5 3.5

Do 2.75 2 3.75 4 2.5 3.5 3.75

Check 1.87 1.62 1.87 2 1.5 2.75 2.25

Act 2.25 1.75 1.75 2 2 2.5 1.75

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Gyumri state pedagogic university

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 1.25 1.75 1.75 1 1.5 1 1.75

Do 1.75 1.75 1.75 2 1.75 1 1.5

Check 1.12 1.12 1.62 1.87 1.12 1 1

Act 1.25 1 1 1 1 1 1

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State engineering university of armenia

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 4.25 3.5 3.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 3.5

Do 0.75 2.5 2.25 3 2.25 3 3

Check 1.87 2.75 2.5 2.5 2.25 2 2

Act 2 2 1.75 2 2 2 2

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Yerevan state medical university

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 2.75 1.75 1 2 1.25 1.25 1.75

Do 2.75 1.25 2.25 1.75 1.75 1.25 1.75

Check 2.75 1.25 1 1.75 1.12 1.22 1.75

Act 2.5 1.75 1.5 1.75 2.25 1.25 1.75

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Vanadzor branch of state engineeringuniversity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Plan 2 2.5 2.25 2.25 2.25 2 1.5

Do 1.25 2.5 2.5 1.25 2 2 1.57

Check 1.75 2.2 1.14 1.57 1.85 1.57 0.71

Act 2 1.75 0.75 2 2 2 1.5

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