Improving quality assurance in european vocational education and training: factors influencing the use of quality assurance findings

Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumptionis that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance which is new and valuable to them and which therefore will form a basis for them to improve performance. This assumption proves to be naïve; too often performance feedback is under-utilized, and evaluations become void, legitimizing rites instead of a basis for organizational learning and the improvement of institutions.The aim of this book was to find out when educational institutions do transform Quality Assurance data into actions to improve performance, and how the useof such data can be promoted. This volume reports on the study of Quality Assurance structures and activities in 36 educational institutes in 6 European Countries and presents guidelines for Quality Assurance. Points to the problem of under-utilized Quality assurance data instead of the wishful thinking about Quality Assurance in education Discusses Quality assurance processes in six European countries to find the critical success factors for utilizing Quality assurance data Provides guidelines for Quality assurance that have been formulated and tested in schools INDICE: From the contents Chapter 1 Introduction to the problem of the under-utilization of Quality Assurance data, and the research approach.- Chapter 2 A theoretical framework for analyzing the implementation and effects of Quality Assurance systems in European VET.- Chapter 3 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in Dutch (I)VET for the health care sector.- Chapter4 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in English (I)VET forthe health care sector.- Chapter 5 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in Danish VET for the health care sector.- Chapter 6 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in Estonian (I)VET for the health care sector.- Chapter 7 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in Italian (I)VET for the health care sector.- Chapter 8 Factors influencing the use of Quality Assurance data in German (I)VET for the health care sector.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9526-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 160
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés