DIUS Assignment 4 Due date 27 of June, 2011 Within the frames of DIUS project the partner country universities

are supposed to develop self-assessment mechanisms that fit best their university needs. Therefore, it is crucial at this point to outline the processes that are to be assessed. As a followup to the mapping exercise done in Le Mans the partner country universities are to describe the processes that are to be assessed in the domains of teaching and learning, research and development and services to society by June 27, 2011 so that they could be discussed during the coordination meeting at the end of July in Koblenz. While describing the needs the universities should follow the example below. Please, color the items that exist and do not need any revision in blue, the ones that exist but need further revision and update in green and the items that do not exist but should be in place for effective selfassessment of a given university in red. ESG 4: Quality Assurance of Teaching Staff Teacher assessment by students Teacher assessment by peers Teacher assessment by supervisors Student surveys Interviews with and/or questionnaires for peers

Teacher assessment

Teacher assessment policies and procedures

Monitoring and review of teacher assessment processes

Interviews with and/or questionnaires for supervisors

Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings, revision of teacher assessment tools

Exists and does not need any revision Exists but needs revision Does not exist, but will be developed during the DIUS project life time

1. Policy and procedures for quality assurance Standard: Institutions should have a policy and associated procedures for the assurance of the quality and standards of their programmes and awards. They should also commit themselves explicitly to the development of a culture which recognises the importance of quality, and quality assurance, in their work. To achieve this, institutions should develop and implement a strategy for the continuous enhancement of quality. The strategy, policy and procedures should have a formal status and be publicly available. They should also include a role for students and other stakeholders.
The strategy of QA system integrated within the SEUA strategic plans The developed methodical framework, procedures and timetable for self assessment of all Faculties and regional branches

Self assessments realized in the SEUA all Faculties and regional branches

Quality assurance policy and procedures

The specialized Division of quality control and management established

Development of appropriate official document on the policy of QA

Formation of long term QA policy as a base for development and assessment of the quality continues enhancement internal system

Detailed description of internal QA processes and procedures

The developed conceptual and organizational framework of SEUA internal QA system

Monitoring and review of Quality assurance policy and procedures

Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings of 2 Quality assurance policy and procedures

2. Approval, monitoring and periodic review of programmes and awards Standard: Institutions should have formal mechanisms for the approval, periodic review and monitoring of their programmes and awards.
Organization of a preliminary internal peer review of the developed curricula

Programmes and awards assessment procedures

Design of curriculum in accordance with the State Educational Standards of qualifications

Organization and summarization the results of external expertise of the developed curricula

Approval of curricula by the SEUA Academic Council in accordance with internal regulations

Approval, monitoring and periodic review of programmes and awards

Design of disciplines programmes at the chairs taking account ENQA requirements

Implement a new methodology of planning, development, realization of educational programmes with harmonization ENQA standards

Monitoring and review of programmes and awards

3 Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings, revision of programmes and awards assessment tools

3. Assessment of students Standard: Students should be assessed using published criteria, regulations and procedures which are applied consistently.

Centralized institutional examination commissions for all the basic common disciplines of the University

Regulation concerning Rating Points system assessment

Introduction of
computer based Adequate tools for technologies. measuring the students achievement of discipline concerning learning outcomes and objectives Reports and , notice of external experts Control of accuracy of the procedures maintenance Clearness and transparency of assessment criteria

A unified Rating Points system of assessment used at SEUA for students of all 3 educational cycles (BE, ME, PhD) Students assessment procedures Obligatory external expertise of all graduation works and dissertations Qualifications awarded by an independent State Examination Commission headed by a leading external expert of the field Monitoring and review of students assessment processes

Students assessment

Current monitoring of student achievements through intermediate assessments and session examinations 4

4. Quality assurance of teaching staffs

Standard: Institutions should have ways of satisfying themselves that staff involved with the teaching of students is qualified and competent to do so. They should be available to those undertaking external reviews, and commented upon in reports.

Contractual system of teaching staff appointment

Prescribed qualification requirements

Competitive system of teaching staff recruitment

Teacher assessment by students Teacher assessment policies and procedures Teaching staffs assessment Teacher assessment by supervisors Internal system of improvement of teaching staff professional skills Monitoring and review of teacher assessment processes

Sociological polls among students Interviews with and/or questionnaires for colleagues through reciprocal lecture attending

Teacher assessment by colleagues

Interviews with and/or questionnaires for supervisors Through the SEUA Faculty Development Centre Organizing the quality enhancement of new appointed teaching staff

Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings, revision of professional progress of teaching staff, testing the minimum necessary level of pedagogical skills in the staffing 5 phase,

5. Learning resources and student support Standard: Institutions should ensure that the resources available for the support of student learning are adequate and appropriate for each programme offered.
New laboratories with capability to provide virtual laboratorial works and lessons The University research library involved in the republican library network and equipped with two E-reading halls Syllabuses, main and extra support teaching aids and methodical materials Partly developed institutions of academic counselors/curators and support services of student career forming

Establishment of clear criteria of resource base necessary for a new program creation

Learning resources and student support quality regulations and procedures

Development of procedures to ensure the quality of learning resources

Learning resources and student support assessment

Development of new services promoting the learning process,

Monitoring and review of learning resources and student support

Established students Career Center Introduction of clear procedures and criteria for monitoring learning resources condition and their permanent improvement. Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings, revision of student support services

6. Information systems 6

Standard: Institutions should ensure that they collect, analyse and use relevant information for the effective management of their programmes of study and other activities.

Information systems assessment policies and procedures Information systems assessment

Reorganization of the University internal information system and regulation of internal and external (public) information flows in accordance with the requirements of new established internal QA system.

Collecting and processing regular information about students current and terminal students current, Analysis ofprogress in studies terminal and graduation progress results on the University different levels (chair, faculty, Rectorate and Academic Senate) Regular updating and analysis of data on student contingent and its movement

Presentation and discussion of the faculties annual reports and the resumptive report of the University Monitoring and review of Information systems 7. Public information processes

Newly developed computeraided system for faculty offices used to store and process data on students and their progression

Document review, observations, debriefing of the findings, revision of Information systems assessment tools

Standard: Institutions should regularly publish up to date, impartial and objective information, both quantitative and qualitative, about the programmes and awards they are offering.

Presentation of alternative tracks of academic programmes available for continuing the education.

Information of potential jobs available to the graduates of the offered specialties, Regularly updated Web site of SEUA that illustrates the University activity in different directions

Public information assessment policies and procedures

Public information assessment

Regulation of public information about the offered academic programmes by means of introducing clearcut procedures of information presentation and putting the provided information into a common format,

Yearly Study guidelines and catalog of disciplines for all graduate and postgraduate students; annual guides for first-year students

Annual publications of the offered programmes list, the vacancy numbers and entering requirements

Publication of the University periodicals: SEUA official monthly Polytechnic, yearly magazine Polytechnic Panorama and the Student Unions monthly Impulse

Periodical publications of catalogues and other information materials about SEUA, its educational subdivisions and regional branches

findings, revision of public information assessment tools The SEUA main achievements in QA -Strengtheness 8

Monitoring and review of public information assessment processes

Document review, observations, debriefing of the

All necessary starting steps are done to implement ENQA standards of internal QA, namely:

The developments of QA processes are directed by assignments of SEUA Strategic Plan standard),

(ENQA 1.1

A specialized division of quality control is established, local commissions structures are underway, Procedures for development and approval of educational programmes, their curriculums and discipline programmes exist (ENQA 1.2 standard), The existing systems of students assessment are permanently improving and updating (ENQA 1.3 standard), The processes of QA of teaching staff are going in direction of improving the efficiency of their retraining and student opinion poll (ENQA 1.4 standard), The development of resource base and services is mainly aimed to the improvement and guarantee of availability of educational processes dataware (ENQA 1.5 standard),

The intranet information systems are fitted to the organisational requirements and particularities of educational processes and to the results control, they include the main forms of information necessary for QA actions accomplishment (ENQA 1.6 standard),

Public aimed external information mostly concerns the admission of students and the conditions of learning and has advertising orientation, different means of informing are used (ENQA 1.7 standard).

The SEUA nearest main needs in QA 1

Weaknesses

To cover ENQA requirements completely and to ensure the internal QA system at SEUA the following further steps are needed:

Development of the University long-term policy of QA and documentary verification of its formal status (ENQA 1.1 standard), Matching the existing QA procedures to the ENQA standards and documentation of the procedures methodical and organizational basics (ENQA 1.1 standard), Implementation of European experience based new methodology to separate the educational programmes planning, execution, monitoring and periodical revision cycles and to take into account the QA elements priory (ENQA 1.2 standard), Improvement of students assessment criteria aimed to adequate measurement of the level of obtaining the programme learning outcomes (ENQA 1.3 standard), Implementation of a testing mechanisms for new teachers in the phase of their appointment to examine and ensure the minimum level of their pedagogical skills and organizing the faculty further professional development and the progress monitoring (ENQA 1.4 standard),

Development and implementation of a clear-cut system of normative requirements to learning recourses of the existing and new establishing programmes; a realized institution of tutors (ENQA 1.5 standard),

Normative and procedural regulation of public information about the offered educational programmes, in particular, presentation of information on potential employment and alternative tracks of the programme available for continuing (ENQA 1.7 standard).

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