| Abstract: |
While accountability has been discussed and designed for implementation for
schools systems in the West, what would responsibility and accountability mean
for a Higher Education Institute (HEI) has been elusive. Basically, key
literature in accountability connects assessment, teaching and learning,
student and teacher systems, testing systems leading to improvements,
innovations and renewals in the whole organizational capacity and capabilities
system. These basically are the 4 sanctified mission tenets of any HEI of
teaching, learning, research and societal responsibility. A key question
facing most HEI would be the fundamental principles and mechanics in
developing, ensuring and measuring these accountabilities that affects the
students and society. The immediacy is the internal policies, processes,
pragmatics and practices of the creation and delivery of “education value”
that is the faculty and staff using the educational processes responsibly and
accountably way towards the students’ accomplishment and achievements and
societal development. Instead of focusing on the outcome of the accountability
from external measures, this paper will focus on the internal practices and
mechanisms that need to be established to ensure and support to internal
responsibility and accountability of the HEI and its academic personnel. This
paper aims at proposing a working model for this internal integrated Academic
Performance and Accountability System (APAS) for a HEI. Six key internal
indices are established in the key areas to course evaluations index, teaching
and learning assessment learning outcome index of student, quality
contributions index, research index, administrative work index, societal
responsibility index. All these culminate in the Academic Performance and
Accountability Index (APAI) of a scorecard of the faculty performance and
accountability from the inherent internal processes that affect the final
student external outcome performance. |