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Quality Enhancement Cell University of Peshawar

Progress Report ( June 11-12, 2008) Jamshoro By Muhammad Taimur Khan Director, QEC e-mail: qec@upesh.edu.pk. Quality Enhancement Cell University of Peshawar. Agenda of the Meeting. Summary of activities of QEC other than SA exercise

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Quality Enhancement Cell University of Peshawar

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  1. Progress Report ( June 11-12, 2008) Jamshoro By Muhammad Taimur Khan Director, QEC e-mail: qec@upesh.edu.pk Quality Enhancement CellUniversity of Peshawar

  2. Agenda of the Meeting • Summary of activities of QEC other than SA exercise • Any Corrective Measures taken by the University on the recommendation of the assessment exercise in the Model Department • Impact of Self Assessment exercise on the selected department • Status of the self assessment exercise in other departments • Action Plan for implementation of the SA mechanism in affiliated colleges

  3. 1. Summary of activities of QEC other than SA exercise • Membership on Committee for Annual Report Writing: This includes helping the P&D Section in data collection, compilation, preparation and presentation of annual report of the University. • Make Presentations about University: Responsibility of making Presentations about the university to visiting delegates and annual report to the Senate of the university

  4. Contd… • PC1s: QEC helped develop PC-1s for: Establishment of Centre of Disaster Preparedness and Management Establishment of Post-Graduate Programme in GIS and Remote Sensing

  5. Contd… • MoUs : Director QEC is a focal person for developing MoUs. Some of the current MoUs signed are with: 1. University of Northumbria, UK 2. Christian –Albrechts University , Kiel, Germany Both these Universities will assist in establishment of Centre of Disaster Preparedness and Management (A Graduate Degree Programme) 3. Saga University, Japan 4. Hiroshima University, Japan

  6. Contd. • Placement of Faculty: Processing cases of placement of faculty hired by HEC and keeping their record • Scholarship Schemes: Assisting Director Admissions office in Need Based Scholarship Schemes Scholarship schemes offered by individuals (TalatSattar Scholarship in Mathematics)

  7. Contd… • Membership on Affiliation Inspection Committees: Director, QEC is member of Inspection Committees conducting inspections of various public and private sector institutions seeking affiliation with University of Peshawar strictly according to HEC and University criteria • Membership on ASRB: As member ASRB Director, QEC attends all the monthly meetings for checking and approval of PhD and Mphil thesis proposals as well as grant of extensions in study period etc.

  8. Contd… • Plagiarism Detection: QEC has been authorized to check all the Mphil, PhD thesis proposals and theses for plagiarism prior to external evaluation The Director QEC, after checking the theses through the software issues a certificate on the basis of similarity index and acknowledgement of original sources within the text whether the theses under scrutiny are plagiarized or otherwise.

  9. Contd… Director, QEC is a member of a Committee to draft statutes for Plagiarism Policy in the light of the recently circulated HEC Policy on Plagiarism On the initiative of QEC a threshold percentage of 15% similarity with original sources with proper acknowledgement within the text was agreed upon in the ASRB for a research work to be declared plagiarized or otherwise.

  10. Contd… • Recently the University Syndicate has approved incentives for promotion of research in terms of remuneration for thesis supervision, research publications in ISI indexed international as well as non ISI indexed national journals. • All claims for remuneration of incentives are forwarded to QEC for clearance on the basis of the approved threshold percentage (15%) for plagiarism detection prior to payment.

  11. Contd… • Best University Teacher Awards: Cases for HEC Best Teacher Awards are processed by QEC • Distance Education Project: QEC is actively involved in the process of establishment of a directorate of Distance Education for private students

  12. 2. Any Corrective Measures taken by the University on the recommendation of the Assessment Exercise in the Model Department Model Department: • Department of Geography was selected as Model department, its SA Document has already been submitted • The improvements suggested in the document still needs to be made. For instance the introduction of Thesis in the Master Programme has not been initiated yet.

  13. Contd… • Results of Teacher and Course Evaluation of the Model Department were discussed in a staff meeting by the Head of Department with the faculty. • Some efforts have been made in meeting one of the objectives i.e. establishing a Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory in the department under the guidance of a Foreign Faculty. • Alumni Association has not been formed and also no effort to make one has been made yet.

  14. 3. Impact of Self Assessment exercise on the selected department • There seems to be no significant impact. The Self Assessment Document was shelved after it was presented to the QEC and no effort made to improve the deficiencies.

  15. 4. Status of the Self Assessment Exercise in other departments • Se

  16. 5. Action Plan for Implementation of the SA Mechanism in Affiliated Colleges

  17. Status of Self Assessment Implementation • The Quality Enhancement Cell, circulated Teacher and Course Evaluation Survey proformae to all the Departments for self assessment for the session 2007. • Students are not coming to the classes even before the official announcement of closer of University for summer vacations.

  18. Contd… • The entry and analysis of the data was done by QEC since the PTs did not cooperate in the self assessment exercise on the pretext that they are already overloaded with routine teaching and other assignments. • The Vice Chancellor also emphasized that in order to get unbiased responses of the students the exercise should be conducted and data analyzed by the QEC.

  19. Contd… • In the absence of any software for analysis of the data, a simple statistical technique of weighted averages (in percentage) was employed to get scores for each faculty member. • The same procedure was adopted to calculate scores/grades for the courses taught during the academic session.

  20. Contd… • An Executive Summary of the results of self assessment for the academic session 2006-07 was submitted to the Vice Chancellor on January 10, 2008. • On the directives of the Vice Chancellor the results were also communicated to the Deans for discussing them with their respective faculty members, and take appropriate corrective measures where needed.

  21. Grading System • The grading system on the pattern of Semester System was used to assign scores to the faculty as well as courses: Scores obtainedLetter GradeRemarks 80% and above A Excellent 65 – 79.9% B Good 50 – 64.9% C Satisfactory 40 – 49.9% D Poor Below 40% F Very Poor

  22. Contd… • Results of some selected Departments are presented in the following slides for sharing the information/procedure with colleagues:

  23. Results of Teacher Evaluationof Centre of Biotechnology

  24. Results of Student Course Evaluationof Centre of Biotechnology

  25. Teacher vs Course Evaluation

  26. Teacher vs Course Evaluation

  27. Teacher Evaluation Survey

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  31. Plan for further use of Information • A meeting of the respective Deans is being planned to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their respective faculties on the basis of results of the above survey in the next month. • Two of our deans are still acting Vice Chancellors, One at University of Peshawar and the other at Malakand. New deans have not been appointed as yet. This would delay many of our activities.

  32. Lessons learnt during the implementation • Lack of interest of Programme Teams in conducting self assessment surveys and analyzing the data. The QEC has to do all that. • The Vice Chancellor is of the opinion that in order to get unbiased response from the students regarding teaching and the courses the Director QEC should conduct the surveys himself and also analyze the data. This seems against the spirit of self assessment, though, but the Vice Chancellor has a valid point.

  33. Contd… • The Data Analyst/Web Manager has resigned about 4 months ago, no one has been appointed yet. The vacant post has , however, been advertised and a new Data Analyst will be appointed by the end of March, 2008. • The KPO and the Naib Qasid are entering the data and analyzing it according to the simple statistical technique of weighted averages.

  34. Sharing the Self Assessment Knowledge • The Director, QEC participated in a workshop arranged by Khyber Medical University in February 2008 at Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar as resource person on the self assessment procedures of HEC

  35. Action Plan for Self Assessment Exercises for Academic Session 2007-08 Evaluation of One Model Department: • Evaluation of one selected department has already been submitted to HEC, documentation of other departments including Biotechnology, Environmental Science, Economics is in process. Self Assessment Surveys in other Departments: 4-Year Bachelor Programmes: • Survey of Programme Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation and Course Evaluation of 4 departments including Biotechnology, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Management Studies, Education is in progress. Master Programmes: • The assessment survey of Master Programmes will be conducted in the third week of April, 2008.

  36. Plagiarism Detection Software The HEC has provided plagiarism detection software “ iThenticate ” to University of Peshawar to check theses, journal articles for plagiarism through this software. The use of the software has been approved by the ASRB of which the Director QEC is also a member.

  37. Contd… • The Director QEC, after checking the theses through the software issues a certificate on the basis of similarity index and acknowledgement of original sources within the text whether the theses under scrutiny are plagiarized or otherwise. • Besides, the Editors of journals of University of Peshawar have been requested to get the articles checked through the Plagiarism Detection Software prior to publication. Articles submitted for publication in one journal did have serious problems.

  38. Continued… • A Policy on Plagiarism by the University is being made in the light of the HEC Policy on Plagiarism. • A Committee consisting of one Dean, Director QEC, Director Admissions and Deputy Registrar has been constituted to make necessary statutes for Plagiarism Policy. • Hopefully, the statutes shall be submitted to the ASRB very soon and finally put before the Syndicate for approval.

  39. Thank You

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