Accreditation software for higher education programs

In a higher educational institute, enhancing the educational process and achieving a high quality of education will help decision makers in a better management of resources of the educational institutes. Jordan universities applied for national and international higher education accreditation, whose one of evaluation criteria depends on students' performance and course delivery process. Quality of course delivery process is considered one of the main objectives in the educational field. Currently, universities collect, process, and store huge amount of educational data. The collected data in educational systems include students' performance such as grades of exams, assignments, projects, and quizzes. The absence of knowledge for using the collected data in improving the courses delivery process, has currently made a developing system to face the requirement of accreditation in Jordan is a mandatory. Also, the process of coordinating and assessing the quality of extracting knowledge is a time consuming. Assistance of every decision-maker in higher educational institute is required to enhance the educational process and achieve high quality in the educational field. In addition, the data collected from exams, assignments, and quizzes will take time to be analyzed and evaluated without an automated system. In this work, an automated system was coded and developed in order to face the previous requirements. The system evaluates and enhances the educational process in Jordanian universities. The system converts the collected data in a valuable knowledge that would help in the accreditation process. Once a department in a university enters program learning outcomes or recently called Student Outcomes (SO), Program Objectives (PO), the system requires all courses information including Course Learning Outcomes (CLO), Course Objectives (CO), and assessment policy. Then, the collected data is automatically coordinated and analyzed. Therefore, the system provides different functions including computing the percent of attained course learning outcomes and achieved student outcomes. The system tries to integrate different educational assessments into a unified evaluation report that provides a plan for continues improvements. Also, the report aids the instructors in determining the weakness and strength of course delivery process. In order to make the education procedures easier, the system builds an automated survey and a syllabus for each course. The survey and syllabus are shared among all instructors who teach the same course. At the end, we have improved tools, interfaces, and database to improve assessment process and students' performance. The system currently is adapted by different departments in Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan. The system helps decision makers to assess the educational process, aid any institute to accredit the performance of the university as a whole and make a decision where all data is up to date. The system shows a powerful capability in producing different reports that provide a plan to improve the quality of education for present and ready to be used in continuous improvement.