第九屆高等教育國際學術研討會
高等教育教與學質量保證的前沿發展

The 9th Higher Education International Conference on the New Developments Of Teaching and Learning Quality Assurance in Higher Education

2017/11/21-23

Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China

主題發言
Keynote Sessions

Programme Evaluation Promotes Teaching-Learning Quality: Analysis of Programme Evaluation of Yunnan Higher Vocational Colleges
課程評估對教學質量的促進:分析中國雲南省高職院校的評估情況
Jianxin Zhang (President, Asia-Pacific Quality Network)
Abstract

A programme is the most important element of quality assurance of higher education, and programme evaluation is a key content of teaching quality and reform in higher education. In the strategic background of “splitting education process of administration, implementation and evaluation” issued by Chinese Ministry of Education(MoE), in 2016-2017, a provincial pilot programme evaluation of higher vocational colleges (HVCs) has completed by Yunnan Higher Education Evaluation Center for the first time. This paper first introduces the concept of “programme evaluation” and illustrates the “bottleneck” of teaching-and-learning quality,then it describes the programme evaluation process of Yunnan HVCs and the criteria development, then it elaborates that 4 characteristics of programme evaluation can promote teaching-learning quality: (1) the emphasis on achievement of student learning outcomes; (2)the combination of teaching with the needs of social developments; (3) the “five degrees” of evaluation content running through the whole teaching-learning process; and (4) the highlight of the development-orientated feature of teaching and learning. It can be seen that programme evaluation based on these 4 characteristics can play the role of “a magic baton” in teaching and learning, and in turn it can promote teaching-learning quality from the perspective of external and internal quality assurance. This empirical research can help to promote teaching-learning quality, improve the implementation of programme evaluation, and contribute to carry on the MoE policy “Opinions on further splitting the education process of administration, implementation and evaluation, and promoting the transformation of the government functions” and finally reach the goal of perfecting the quality of cultivation personnel in the HEIs/HVCs.

Author Profile(s)
Professor Jianxin Zhang is President of Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN), the largest non-profit, non-government organization in the Asia-Pacific Region. She serves as Chief Expert of Yunnan Higher Education Evaluation Center (YHEEC), Professor of the Research Institute of Higher Education in Yunnan University and Advisor of Council for CHEA (Higher Education Accreditation) International Quality Group (CIQG) in USA. She gained PhD degree at Peking University in China, Master degree in EPFL in Switzerland, a visiting scholar in UNESCO. She has been teaching for 37 years, visited over 50 countries/territories on academic assignments and has chaired over 50 research projects both at home and abroad. She organized over 20 on-site evaluations to HEIs, reviewed Fiji Higher Education Commission and Russian Register in the on-site review of Asia-Pacific Quality Register (APQR) and CHEA/CIQG Quality Platform Review, conducted over 10 workshops on evaluators in Pakistan and China. She has published 26 books and over 200 papers and has been 4 times awarded the Social Science Achievement Award from Chinese government.