Development and Implementation of a Web-based Institutional Evaluation System (WIES)

摘要

In this research, we propose and implement a web-based system for institutional evaluation of open universities. The purpose of institutional evaluation is to investigate the strengths, the weaknesses and the improvement strategies based on standards for quality assurance and accreditation. The main goal is to improve the educational inputs, processes and outputs in academic and administrative aspects. We developed a web-based institutional evaluation system (WIES), the first of its type, that implements the standards of Op en and Distance Learning (ODL) universities issued by the Association of Arab Universities (AArU ) in collaboration with Al-Quds Open University (QOU). WIES and its mathematical model for weighting and scoring of qualitative indicators reduce time and efforts. It assists self-evaluation teams, internal and external reviewers and accred itation agencies in performing periodical, short -term and evidence-based institutional evaluation. The evaluation process can be conducted online, including quantitative-indicators collection, response to qualitative indicators and quality criteria and requirements, and self -evaluation report (SER) building. In addition, the proposed mathematical model performs automatic weighting and scorin g using weighted and percentage accumulative methods. A beta version of WIES has been developed and tested at QOU in its institutional -evaluation project 2015 -2017.