Topics:
1. Academic and institutional quality assurance
Required reading / viewing / listening:
None.
Homework due:
Homework 12 (2 points)
Complete the online exercise "Academic vocabulary" anytime after the start of the semester. Once you've scored 100%, email the results (with your name) to your instructor and to your personal email account. Business majors should select "Business" as their academic discpline; Communication and Psychology majors should select "Psychology / Sociology"; English Language and Literature majors should select "Literature"; and IER majors should select "Politics / Government."
Written assessment:
Quiz 12
Quiz questions will be drawn from the list below. Answers can be found in the UNYP Student Guide and/or lectures and class discussions.
Briefly define and state the significance of "quality assurance."
UNYP uses the following as part of its regular quality assurance processes for academic programs (circle all that apply): Student Course Evaluations, Peer Course Observations, Departmental Meetings each semester, Individual meetings with teachers each year, a statistical report of grading, review of a representative collection of course materials.
True/False: All teachers have a course/section observed by a department chair or mentor each academic year.
True/False: The goal of Student Course Evaluations and Peer Course Observations is to provide teachers with feedback so they can improve the effectiveness of their teaching.
True/False: You can find UNYP's annual reports to the Czech Ministry of Education on the UNYP website and in the UNYP Library.
The sports teams UNYP currently supports are:
Student Council officers are elected / appointed.
Who is eligible to vote for Student Council officers?
Who may attend Student Council meetings?
What do you need to bring with you to access to one of the fitness centers that UNYP subsidizes?
Notes:
UNYP Annual Report for 2008 (in Czech)
Qrossroads pages on Quality assurance and accreditation in Europe
