Opinions of Academic Administrators Regarding Constructing a Quality Culture at Education Faculties
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Teacher quality isdirectly related to the quality of education. It is important that teachercandidates be very well equipped at pre-service period as well as be followedduring in service period. The aim of teacher education is to equip studentteachers with knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding the teaching profession.In this context, it is important to construct a quality culture at educationfaculties to improve the quality. In this study, one dimension of amultidimensional study on internal quality standards was focused on. This studywas based on a mixed methods design. While quantitative data gatheringtechniques (document analysis) were used to determine the current qualitypolicies at education faculties, qualitative data gathering techniques(interview) were used to determine the suggestions regarding applications tofoster a quality culture of academic administrators (deans, vice deans anddepartment chairs). When results of thestudy about quality policies were analyzed, it was observed that while therewere quality policies of universities at their internet sites and as a writtendocument, such policies were not prevalent at faculty level. In addition to this, when the opinions ofacademic administrators regarding quality applications to foster the quality ofteacher education and a quality culture were analyzed, it was observed thatthere was a consensus regarding constructing quality policies at the facultylevel by a participating view, informing all participants about this study andthe necessity to apply the decisions. In this context, it is necessary toguarantee that required mechanisms, processes, and functions are existing toreach the desired quality and systems to be designed to help the institutionsto reach their target.
Source: Journal of Education and Future
Authors: Tuba Akar, Cem Babadoğan
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2920140799