Quality Assurance and Improvement in Education and Training

Wider Professional Practice
in Education and Training
TASK 4

INTROUCTION
 Quality assurance is vital for
encouraging the growth, learning
and development of children as well
as for promoting professional
expertise of educators as well.
 The evaluation of self and learning
programs can assist educators to
enhance the quality of training
programs and deliverable outcomes.

5.1 QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT
 In order to assure the quality of teaching organisations used to
evaluate individual sessions, entire course or program against
legislations, teaching outcomes and standards so that learning
process can be improved.
 In the teaching organizations, the quality assurance
arrangements are managed by quality control team having
senior management. Information regarding the same has been
collected through regular teaching observations and self
assessment method.
 Within the organizations, the performances has been verified
throughout the year, with predicted grades through external
and internal quality assurance method.
 Organisations also provide opportunities to educators so that
they can self-evaluate themselves and internal verification and
self-assessment can be done.
 For assuring the quality organisations used to review the
course files and standard preform so that performance gaps
can be identified.

CONTD.
• The tracking and prediction of performance, observation schemes as well as review of individual and
staff performance is also used by organisation to identify the improvement and quality areas.
• For improving the quality best practices are shared among educators and they are given in service
training as well.
• The organisations used to motivate educators and help in achieving goals of professional development
plan so that essential improvements can be introduced.
• The students of the organizations are given formal opportunity to provide feedback for the courses and
units studies by them. The feedback forms involves the questions that are appropriate enough to
provide idea how the students found the units and their experience regarding teaching. The poor
feedbacks are further investigate to get more detailed information and final improvement sessions have
been generated to enhance the experiences in fruitful manner.
• Each course and tutor have their own key performance indicators that highly able to provide objectives
for their staff to work upon.
• The areas identified and require quality improvements will need to take inspection, comparison over
the findings against their own self assessment to identify things that were going great and what needs
improvements. Hence, the inspection self judge the quality of the providers own self assessment.