Development of Quality Assurance System for Academic Programs and Courses Reports

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Author(s)

Sahar A. El Rahman 1,2,* Bashayer A. Al-Twaim 3

1. Faculty of Engineering-Shoubra / Electronics, Computers Systems & communication - Electrical Department, Cairo, Egypt

2. Department of Computer Science, Riyadh, 11487, Saudi Arabia

3. Department of Information Systems, Riyadh, 11487, Saudi Arabia

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2015.06.05

Received: 20 Feb. 2015 / Revised: 13 Mar. 2015 / Accepted: 26 Apr. 2015 / Published: 8 Jun. 2015

Index Terms

Academic Accreditation, Electronic Systems, NCAAA, Program Report, Quality Assurance

Abstract

This paper aims to review a proposed Quality Assurance system (QA) which suggests developing the internal quality assurance system of academic programs at the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), by replacing the existing paper-based QA System into a web-based system. In general, the QA system will work as: providing users the required NCAAA (National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment) reports' forms to be filled. Then, the proposed QA system will gather forms and generates completed reports. At the same time, it provides them to the decision makers. The proposed QA system will allow decision makers to approve reports and view gathered information in many views in which will facilitate the making decision processes in continuing improvement of the educational processes and outcomes. Also, QA system can be extended and applied to other PNU colleges. After that, it can be applied to all KSA universities.

Cite This Paper

Sahar A. El_Rahman, Bashayer A. Al-Twaim, "Development of Quality Assurance System for Academic Programs and Courses Reports", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.7, no.6, pp.30-36, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2015.06.05

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