The quality assessment and development model Offering Quality Education to Adults (OQEA) is based on self-evaluation; this means that the educational organisation, the adult educational manager and/or teacher(s) voluntarily decide:
- to assess the quality of their work,
- which parts of the educational process or effects they will monitor,
- what quality standards they will set for themselves,
- what they will do with the achievements,
- what measures they will introduce based on the assessment received.
The model is adjusted in a way that it can be used in different adult education organisations (adult education centres, secondary and post-secondary education organisations, private education, and volunteer organisations, etc.). We use it to assess formal and informal education. The model can be used for self-evaluation of the entire educational organisation, or only one programme, department, or educational group; it can even be used by only one teacher.
Implementation of the model on the level of the educational organisation requires permanent cooperation of the management. During assessments, decisions, and measures the entire collective of the educational organisation should participate.
