The first meeting of educational organizations was carried out on May 22nd 2014, where we discussed the basis, purpose and process of expert external evaluation. We discussed both content areas and quality criteria which will be subject to external evaluation. This year expert external evaluation addresses both areas of quality, namely Internal system for quality assessment and development and Support to participants in their education.
Special attention was given to the guidelines for the preparation of self-assessment of the quality of educational organizations. Organizations will prepare a self-assessment of quality report until August. In autumn we will carry out further training for expert external evaluators and expertly evaluate the self-assessment reports.
Highlights of the meeting with organizations
On September 4th 2014, we carried out further training for expert external evaluators which will in 2014, in cooperation with SIAE, carry out the expert external evaluations on the three organizations that educate adults.
In the further training we have discussed the innovations and changes in the field of quality of adult education, reviewed the standards and criteria prepared for the expert external evaluation in 2014, discussed the appropriate response of the evaluators on some examples and signed a code of ethics of expert external evaluators. The training was also intended for the agreements on this year's course of expert external evaluations in selected organizations.
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On 8
th and 10
th October 2014 we carried out
visits to the three organizations, taking part in this year’s expert external evaluations. The purpose of the visit was to confirm the correct understanding of the self-assessment report of internal quality system and the support to participants in education. Through conversations with employees, external partners and other entities expert external evaluators obtained additional clarification and information, by which they clarified the dilemmas and arguments presented by the educational organization incorporated in the self-assessment report. The visits lasted the whole day and were important for a more objective external assessment of quality.
Visits of the groups of expert external evalvatoric were carried out:
- in Center za dopisno izobraževanje Univerzum on Octobre 8th,
- in Zavod za izobraževanje in kulturo Èrnomelj on Octobre 8th, and
- in Zasavska ljudska univerza Trbovlje on Octobre 10th.
Now, after visiting the organizations, the expert external evaluators are preparing final reports on expert external evaluation of the organizations.
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On Thursday, 11th December 2014, we carried out an evaluation workshop on expert external evaluations in 2014.
At the workshop, together with evaluators and representatives of the evaluated organizations we discussed the experiences and the effects of expert external evaluation. Organizations were also awarded with certificates of participation in expert external evaluation of adult education in 2014.
