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The QNSA Visiting Review Team or External Evaluation: The visiting review team will carry out review of quality assurance. The visiting team will spend a number of days (3-4 days, depending on size and other aspects of the school) to study the programs and services available in order to deepen their understanding of the self-study report submitted. This will include meetings with various stakeholder groups and review of evidence at school site. The responsibilities of the QNSA school visiting team are: • Ensure the school completion and taking into account the views of beneficiaries regarding the strengths and areas of growth, and the willingness of the school to achieve its vision and objectives. • Report on the school’s commitment to the standards. • Review the school’s commitment to the process of continuous improvement. • Assessment strategies for school quality assurance. • Assessment of meeting learning needs of ALL students (i.e. programs, resources and support available, and methods of teaching applied in school). • Review learning results and their application school wide. Reaching Decision on School Accreditation: Chairman of the visiting team submits a comprehensive report to the Accreditation Committee, which in turn, studies in-depth, the recommendations made. The QNSA then submits its recommendation for accreditation term and supportive reports to the Supreme Education Council who then makes a final decision on the granting of accreditation. Each school has the right to challenge the decision within two months of its issuance and may form a committee to look into it with both the SEC and QNSA findings. Accreditation Terms Factors with QNSA The QNSA recommendation for accreditation for a school is determined based on the findings of the QNSA visiting team to a school. They reflect a visiting team’s analysis on a school’s development and support on the various indicators of the QNSA standards as found in this handbook. A school’s accreditation term recommendation will be as factored as follows: (1) 5 YEAR QNSA Accreditation: for schools achieving an average within the range of 2.5-3 on all standards and their indicators of self-study as detailed in QNSA handbook. (2) 3 YEAR QNSA Accreditation: for schools achieving an average within the range of 2.0-2.49 on all standards and their indicators of self-study as detailed in QNSA handbook. (3) Denial of Accreditation: schools achieving less than an average of less than 2.0 on all standards and their indicators of self-study as detailed in QNSA handbook. QNSA Policy for National Accreditation 7
Re-evaluation/Re-accreditation: After obtaining a term accreditation, the school commits to targeting goals of action plan, with further improvements directed towards improving and committing to high quality of education standards for students, so that they are prepared for new accreditation and self-study process. Schools must yearly commit to: • Carrying out continuous improvement of operations as required. • Conduct internal quality assurance processes to make sure that school goals, optimal school programs, and support services targeting all students are being met. Successful School Accreditation Depends on Ensuring: • Encourages continuous improvement: COMMITMENT • Examines all facets of a school: MISSION/PROGRAM ALIGNED • Inclusion of all stakeholders, self-examination: VIABILITY • School examines itself to identify who they are, strengths, areas of improvement, action plan: SELF-ANALYSIS • Focus on impact of school programs on student learning: LEARNING RESULTS • Validates school in quality & planning of programs, support, towards SCHOOL EXCELLENCE • QNSA: analyzes degree schools are meeting standards set, validates to community that educational programs are solid: HIGH STANDARDS For further information, please call: Ms. Nehad Ahmed-Kayali at 44559386 Email : n.riad@sec.gov.qa 8 QNSA Policy for National Accreditation
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