Beirut, the 17th of April 2013 Bruno Curvale Former president of ENQA Member of the French Bologna Experts’ team Senior Project leader at Centre international d’études pédagogiques (CIEP) Quality Assurance in Higher Education TLQAA Self-Evaluation Reporting

Beirut, the 17th of April 2013 Mainlines of the presentation 1. Background 2. Self-Evaluation as a core element of quality culture 3. What Self-Evaluation is also about? 4. Self-evaluation reporting 5. Management of the self-evaluation exercise 6. Self-evaluation and external evaluation 2

Quality as a the primary responsibility of HEIs The notion of national quality assurance frameworknational quality assurance framework The general QA model –Self-evaluation; –External evaluation –Public reporting –Follow-Up TLQAA –A capacity to develop by each HEI Beirut, the 17th of April Background 3

An opportunity for the institution to learn about itself A process that should commit the whole institution (it should be supported by the leadership) Integrity, honesty and openness are necessary for a successful self-assessment exercise. A climate of mutual respect and commitment should be established among all the units and persons involved in the self-assessment exercise Quality culture? Beirut, the 17th of April Self-evaluation as a core element of quality culture 4

A governance tool A mediation and dialogue tool A management of change tool Beirut, the 17th of April What Self-Evaluation is also about? 5

Should report about the level of achievement of each standard Should not necessarily use each criteria but should use convincing criteria Should reflect the diversity of the institution Should aim at clarification of situations Should be evidence based Should be analytical and self-criticalanalytical and self-critical Beirut, the 17th of April Self-evaluation reporting 6

The following steps are being proposed for the preparation of a self-assessment report: Forming a self-assessment steering committee; Defining the elements/questions corresponding to each standard; Collecting information relative to each standard; Analyzing the achievements (self-assessment); Reporting by synthesizing the information collected and the findings. Beirut, the 17th of April Management of the self-evaluation exercise 7

The Self-Evaluation report is a crucial information for the external evaluators A model of the interactions between internal and external evaluationA model Beirut, the 17th of April Self-evaluation and external evaluation 8

Beirut, the 17th of April 2013 Thank you for your attention 9

Beirut, the 17th of April Ministries Higher education institutions Agencies National policies / HEIs policies “Evaluation of appropriateness” (social, geographic, systemic) / “Evaluation of quality” Internal evaluation / External evaluation Independence Operational autonomy Institutional autonomy National policies Citizen protection Higher education governance and national QA systems B. Curvale

Quality culture Is based on critical thinking and (not so) simple questions : What are we trying to do? How are we trying to do it? How do we know it works? How do we change in order to improve? See EUA approach to quality culture 11 Beirut, the 17th of April 2013

Evaluation needs clarification of… Objectives Norms (Standards) Criteria Evidences And multiple agreements between the partners and stakeholders involved See ESG Part 2 12 Beirut, the 17th of April 2013

To assess, to verify, to decide… 13 PeersAccreditation Committee Actions with regards to each criterion Evidences and motivation of judgment Decision process - Can we trust this procedure? - Can we make a decision? If Yes - Do we follow or not the recommendation of the peers? Accreditation decision or recommendation Analysis of the present situation x Development in the near future (Trends - Trust in the future) x Is it enough or not today?x Recommendation: yes, yes with condition(s), no Agency Complement of informationSelf-Assessment report* Feedback on the procedure Remarks made by the HEI Other elements? And to assure consistency B. Curvale 2011 Beirut, the 17th of April 2013