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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Self-evaluation of Higher Education Colleges — The Case of Israel
Gila Oren1, Arthur Meidan2
(1. Marketing, Advertising and Digital Department, School of Business Administration, the College of Management, Israel;
2. School of Business Administration, the College of Management, Israel)
Abstract: The issue of quality has become lately the key element of assessing performance in higher education throughout the world. In order to increase efficiency, continuous improvement and promotion of teamwork, the checking and assessment of quality in higher education has become of paramount importance. There are a number of ways of assessing quality in the higher education: 1) using outside the organization experts, 2) peers evaluation, 3) students’ evaluation, 4) self-evaluation, and a combination of these.
This paper presents the process of evaluation of higher education in Israeli colleges. This is a requirement by the Council of Higher Education (CHE) that supervises the standards and controls the quality of delivery through its Quality Assurance Division. This is done via a “Self-evaluation Process”, through which every department/faculty in each college is evaluated every 5 years or so, on a number of parameters. The study presents and discusses these parameters of evaluation and presents the main elements in the process of self-evaluation, problems, strengths and weaknesses, that are part of this process. It further enables to compare this method to other methods of evaluation of higher education in other countries. In addition, it presents the benefits of the self-evaluation approach, to the individual institution and its staff (academic, managerial and support).
Key words: higher education, performance, self-evaluation
