A New Approach for Multi-Level Evaluation of Strategic Educational Goals

Abstract

Educational organizations with multiple level of management promotes for their strategic educational goals as a correlated and clustered data. The typical assessment and feedback approaches are paper-based where word documents and flowcharts are used to evaluate strategic educational goals augmented with quantitative indicators. Unfortunately, the paper-based approach often neglects the relationship and dependencies between the educational goals defined at different levels. This may lead to complications in the analysis, lack of clarity, and subject to different interpretations by the multiple management. We propose a multi-level model-driven approach that improves the assessment of strategic educational goals, handles the clustered data efficiently and allows the individual and group level assessment to take effect simultaneously. The approach also allows decision makers in academic institution to extract valuable information from goal models at different academic levels and measure the fulfilment of the educational goals with respect to the target performance in a formal way.

Model-Driven Framework for Evaluating Learning Outcomes Process

“…Different kind of surveys are used for that purpose with a motive of assessing the institution's regulations, polices and activities with respect to its Missions, PEOs and SOs. Common surveys used in the academy are: Trend surveys, panel surveys, cohort surveys (Alhaj et al, 2020).…”

“…The primary constituencies who involve in the development and/or evaluation of SOs and PEOs are program academic members, Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), program alumni, undergraduate students of the program and employers of the program graduates. Other constituencies would be involved are students' parents, program administrative staff and administration of the educational institution (Alhaj et al, 2020). The most important body for constituent participation is the industrial advisory board.…”