1 st QALLL CONFERENCE on Quality Assurance in Lifelong Learning focussing on Vocational Education & Training and Adult Education DARKO MALI: Quality rules and initiatives Bled, March 24 th 2011
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th Our goals: To collaborate in EQAVET Network and to inform stakeholders about activities and results To provide active support to national debate and to development of national approach for quality assurance in VET … To support self-evaluation of schools as complementary and effective means of quality assurance CPI as Slovenian National Reference Point for QA in VET
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th VET providers level: A quality assurance system description A quality group composed by different stakeholders: teachers, students, companies representatives, parents Quality report annually presented on website (based on self-evaluation) National level: National Quality indicators Annual Quality report (based on quality indicators) … QUALITY RULES IN VET IN SLOVENIA
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th Quality assurance initiatives (Management) Quality commitment Self- evaluation activities (process, instruments...) Quality group Quality report Promotion of peer-review activities QUTE-software (SEKER, ROQET) QUTE-software (SEKER, ROQET) Monitoring Recommendations for implementing self-evaluation
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th Project QUTE – Quality in vocational education ( ) Project SEKER (TOI) – Self-evaluation in Konya region ( ) Main idea: to develop self-evaluation software for conducting surveys for teachers, pupils… and get results immediately Results ( Software for conducting surveys and analyze-compare results Self-evaluation manual (process, areas, indicators, criteria…) Questionnaires (for teacher, students, headmasters) QUTE-software
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th Methodology based on Peer-review manual (LdV project): External evaluation of schools as complementary method to self-evaluation Peers from schools and from institute (CPI) Training for schools and peers 2 quality areas: Self-evaluation process Learning and teaching process Results: Criteria for areas School reports School improvement plans Trained and experienced peers Promoting Peer-review
1st QALLL Conference. VN NN. Bled March 24 th % of schools has a quality group 65 % of school has a quality report (based on self- evaluation) on website Improvement plans are concerning: Teaching and learning (41 %) School management (18 %) Pupil’s support (10 %) 26 % of schools managers are using quality report for planning Commitment to quality on a da Monitoring – main findings