Criterion 8 – Output and Outcomes
Criterion
Requirements
Quality level assessment
Result
8.1 The pass rate, dropout rate, and average time to graduate are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.
Operational Result
The program coordinator has a map of all the enrollees in the program and monitors their progress. The students are reminded of their progress in their thesis preparation and the courses to enrol in. There is a significant number of students who enrolled but dropped out from the program. It was observed that there are students who attempted to enrol but never attended the program, even if they passed the interview. It is noted that there are dropouts on the list of students. There is a recorded drop out rate. Since there is an observable rate of students who drop out of the course, the program should find out the reasons for their occurrence.
8.2 Employability as well as self-employment, entrepreneurship, and advancement to further studies, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.
Operational Result
There are no graduates yet in this program, but a process has been established to monitor their progress in the school where they are employed. The enrollees in the MEd-LMS program are teachers in basic education, so they link the theory learned in the program with their teaching practice. This is so-called work integrated learning ( WIL). All delivering lecturers see to it that projects are linked to their teaching practice. The best assessment is with the aid of e-portfolio reporting. It is observed that the students continue to involve themselves in academic practice to improve their skills.
8.3 Research and creative work output and activities carried out by the academic staff and students, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.
Operational Result
All courses require academic output from students at all year levels. Every year, academic outputs are varied and continually improved. The academic outputs are in the form of seminars , research, and teaching materials. Academic outputs such as research, are presented and evaluated by the lecturers and also by peers. Seminars in which the students and their lecturer are evaluated by all participants. There are also projects that are linked to their work as teachers and department heads in the schools where they teach. However, the research of students can also be published so that it will undergo peer review if submitted to journal publications.
All the program instructors produced research over the past year. There are also studies produced by teaching instructors in the last five years.
8.4 Data are provided to show directly the achievement of the programme outcomes, which are established and monitored.
Operational Result
The program head and the dean monitor the thesis writers and assign their advisers to thesis writing. The thesis writings 1 and 2 can assess all the learning outcomes. For morals and ethics, if the students avoid plagiarism in their writing, this shows that they are showing awareness of morals and ethics in academic writing, a character that should be exhibited by academicians. Knowledge and intellectual skill are exhibited through the development of the theoretical and conceptual framework, , analysis of results, and the development of conclusions. The numerical and IT skills are evident in the application of statistics and use of technology in research, and more importantly, in the use of the internet in their search for supporting literature. Their communication skills are evidenced by their technical writing and reporting . Finally, ,the processing and analysis of data using techniques is evidence of numerical and IT skills.
However, the data will be generated later, when the students graduate from the program.
8.5 Satisfaction level of the various stakeholders are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.
Operational Result
There are no graduates yet in this program. There is no data generated for the satisfaction levels of stakeholders. However, this can be monitored by the survey form, which contains the standard learning outcomes on morals and ethics, knowledge and intellectual skills, interpersonal relationships, and numerical and IT skills. These skills match the learning outcomes stipulated in TQF 2. If there is data generated in the future, the result of the survey will be used for the improvement of the curriculum and its delivery.
Evidence
Self-Assessment
| Requirements | Result | Score |
| 8.1 The pass rate, dropout rate, and average time to graduate are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement. | / | 1 |
| 8.2 Employability as well as self-employment, entrepreneurship, and advancement to further studies, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement. | / | 1 |
| 8.3 Research and creative work output and activities carried out by the academic staff and students, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement. | / | 1 |
| 8.4 Data are provided to show directly the achievement of the programme outcomes, which are established and monitored. | / | 1 |
| 8.5 Satisfaction level of the various stakeholders are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement. | / | 1 |
| Overall | 5 | |