Expert External Evaluation

AIM

Expert external evaluation is intended to ensure expert external quality assurance of adult education organisation in selected fields of quality.

OBJECTIVES

By implementing expert external evaluations into the process of assessment and development of quality in adult education, we want to:

• Encourage the organisations to maintain their quality standards and to implement improvements and quality development;
• Improve the internal assessment of selected fields, which is first done by the organisation itself (self-evaluation);
• Implement a process that allows the educational organisation to get reliable external feedback on its strengths and areas for improvement and further development.

DESCRIPTION

The planning and implementation of expert external evaluations requires participation of three entities:

• The SIAE professional development group;
• Expert external evaluators; and
• The educational organisation.

AKTIVNOSTI

The steps of expert external evaluation:

• Preparation of a written application (self-evaluation) to prove that the set quality standards are met.
• Formation of teams of expert external evaluators; review and assessment of the self-evaluation.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

So far, the project has reached the following key achievements:

• We developed a professional design (concept and methodology) of expert external evaluation;
• We developed a programme of basic training for expert external evaluators as well as additional professional training programmes;
• We trained a team of expert external evaluators;