TVETipedia Glossary

Self-evaluation

Any process or methodology carried out by a (of a VET provider) VET provider under its own responsibility, to evaluate its performance or position in relation to two dimensions:

an internal dimension ('micro level') that covers services, internal staff, beneficiaries or clients, policy and/or internal organisation, development plan, etc.; and
an external dimension ('macro level') that covers analysis of the educational offer of this institution compared to others: relationship with the territorial system of actors (local decision-makers, unions, local governments, type of labour market and needs of VET, information network, type of populations interested in a learning offer and evolution of the needs, main results of work at national and European levels in the VET sector).

This double self-evaluation allows VET providers not only to improve their internal systems of quality control but also to evaluate their own position in their various environments.

Source: based on Cedefop, Technical working group on quality in VET.

Source:
Cedefop, Glossary: Quality in education and training, 2011
Cedefop, Glossary: Quality in education and training, 2011
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This glossary is an updated and extended version of Quality in training – La qualité dans la formation, published by Cedefop in 2003. It considers a series of important recent policy developments at European level, including setting up a European qualifications framework for lifelong learning (EQF) and the development of a European credit system for vocational education and training.
It is intended for researchers, experts and all those involved in improving the quality of learning curricula, learning providers and education and training systems. It does not represent an exhaustive inventory of the terminology used by specialists.