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This study aimed 1) to develop a new Internal Quality Assurance system for the Faculty of Education Burapha University, and 2) to try out the system to see its effectiveness, This study was designed in 3 phases. The first phase was the analysis of the Faculty's Internal Quality Assurance System. The population for the data collection in this first phase was 30 people. They were a group of Faculty management people, a group of Faculty committee, a group of Faculty senior consulting people and a group of senior expert teachers. In the second phase, which very much focused on the development of an Internal Quality Assurance system, the researchers used the focus group technique to collect data. The people who participated and shared their viewpoints in this phase were 10 Faculty management people, 17 Faculty committee, and 12 Faculty senior consulting people (six of whom were people from outside and the other six were people working inside the Faculty of Education). In addition, while 17 Faculty senior consulting people were asked to evaluate the proposed system, the researchers as around 10 Faculty senior consulting people to become i auditors. The last phase intended to implement the developed system and evaluate it. This study found that the developed Internal Quality Assurance system of Faculty of Education consisted of 4 main activities and 3 mechanisms. This system was designed to have 2 Internal Quality Assurance teams. The first team was called "the management team", which was comprised of Faculty management people, all heads of departments and Internal Quality Assurance committee. The second team was called "the operational team which included lecturers, the faculty staff members, Internal Quality Assurance committee, most of whom were lecturers and faculty staff members passing the Internal Quality Assurance training program, all heads of departments and all heads of study programs in the Faculty of Education. The main arranged activities by the Faculty of Education, were 1)the Internal Curriculum Quality Assurance activity and 2) the Internal Faculty Quality Assurance activity. Both when being activities were planned to ensure the readiness of all study programs and the Faculty evaluated by quality assurance teams from outside. These were approved and run by 2 teams. While team A included 10 people from the Faculty management team and Faculty senior consulting people, team B took account of 17 members of the Faculty committee. It was shown in this study that on average, the suitability of this Internal Quality Assurance System was significantly found in both the high and the highest level |
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