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The English text gives an overview of the ESNAL project (European Service Network for Adult Learning). This explores the current discussion relating to quality assurance in the domain of further education in the individual EU countries.
Quality testing and organisational development The project QUEST (developing quality, controlling, testing) It is reported of the model, implementation and results of a project for quality testing (QUEST). It collected the concepts, approaches and experiences – in terms of quality assurance - at several folk high schools and prepared the implementation of the model test of Bund-Laender-Commission (BLK) on learner orientated quality assurance in further education networks.
In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat sich eine bemerkenswerte Vielfalt an Qualitätsmodellen und gesetzlichen Rahmen- und Förderbedingungen etabliert. Die Vergleichbarkeit der Qualitätssiegel, -testate und -zertifikate ist immer weniger gegeben. So ist es für eine Weiterbildungseinrichtung, die sich für eines der Modelle entscheiden möchte, schwierig, die jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile für die eigene Institution herauszufiltern. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das DIE die verschiedenen Qualitätsman…
Course teachers who cooperate in quality assurance programmes of their institutions tend to find this work gratifying in various ways: they improve their professional background, they get to look at their institutions from a new and interesting angle, and they profit from organisational improvements arising from quality projects. If, however, excessive expectations are addressed to them in the course of the quality discussion, these may readily be reflected back onto the institution and its inf…
Maxims as a "soft" instrument for quality assurance in honorary organised adult education It is reported of the results of a model project of rural adult education that had the aim of developing close to practice quality criteria for honorary staff in this field.
The performances of the system theory for the generation of research questions The following is about to present the performances of the system theory for the formulation of research questions by means of an evaluation order. Central for this is the communication term, which is evaluated in terms of its significance for the development of research questions.
Striving for quality is at the core of pedagogical professionalism. Therefore the science of further education has to intervene in the quality discussion in two ways: Firstly, it must develop criteria by which systems of quality assurance can be compared and by which their appropriateness for the sector of further education can be evaluated. Secondly, it must inquire yet more persistently into the specifics of pedagogical quality and find out what further education science can contribute toward…
Erwachsenenbildner/innen müssen die Qualität ihrer Arbeit überprüfbar sicherstellen und kontinuierlich verbessern. Stefanie Hartz und Klaus Meisel vermitteln in der 3., aktualisierten Auflage das hierfür notwendige methodische Grundwissen. Die Autoren behandeln insbesondere das Thema Evaluation, welches einen traditionell pädagogischen Zugang zur Frage der Qualitätsentwicklung darstellt. Darüber hinaus enthält der Studientext eine Darstellung und Einschätzung überregional relevanter Qualitätsma…
