Standard and Process Development

EPDAD - Öğretmenlik Eğitim Programları Değerlendirme ve Akreditasyon Derneği

Standard and Process Development

EPDAD - Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Teacher Education Programs
Standard and Process Development
28 January 2020 Tuesday

Training of Managers and Assessors

In 2015, EPDAD initiated such a process in order to and improve the standards and documents prepared within the scope of YÖK-World Bank National Education Development Project (1999-2001). Until the end of 2016, the following studies were carried out in this process:

  1. On 24 August 2015, permission was requested to and use the standards and documents prepared within the scope of the project by applying to YÖK. The CoHE responded positively to this letter and the system establishment works have been initiated.
  2. A Preliminary Working Group was established. This group of six members was established under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Gültekin;[In the Eskişehir Working Group, which operates under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Gültekin, Prof. Dr. Handan Deveci, Assoc. Dr. İsmail H. Acun, Assoc. Dr. Erdoğan Kaya, Assoc. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan Günel and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Handan Deveci, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail H. Acun, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail H. Acun, Assoc. Dr. Dr. Erdoğan Kaya, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan Günel and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuba Çengelci]. In the report prepared at the end of the study process lasting approximately one month, it was announced that the standards and documents in question could be used by EPDAD with some arrangements.
  3. The findings of the study were discussed at the Teacher Education Standards and Accreditation Process Workshop held on 01-02 October 2015 in cooperation with EPDAD - Anadolu University Faculty of Education. The findings and opinions recorded in the report prepared at this workshop formed the basis for the work of the Standard and Document Development Working Group. Finally, this group built the infrastructure for the EPDAD Accreditation Handbook. This book is the road map of EPDAD's accreditation activities initiated in 2016.

In this process, which started with the letter of YÖK dated 24 August 2015 and continued for about a year, 52 academic staff and students took part.

Guidance and Psychological Counselling Undergraduate Education Standards Development Workshop

The Preliminary Working Group, which was established under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Süleyman Doğan at Ege University Faculty of Education, Department of RPD, prepared the document to be worked on in the workshop to be convened later by determining the field-specific standards and processes. This document was discussed at the Workshop on Standards for Guidance and Psychological Counselling Education hosted by Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences on 24 December 2016 and formed the basis for the field standards to be implemented in the following academic year.

The quality assurance system requires the existence of a sustainable development process by its very nature. Because it is not possible for a static structure to maintain quality in a period when the environment is constantly changing. Moreover, resisting change is to open the door to a destructive backwardness.