آليات مقترحة لتقويم برامج الدراسات العليا

الملخص EN

This study aims to propose practical mechanisms to evaluate the post graduate programs, for the goal of development and upgrading of these programs to meet the global developments in the field of postgraduate studies; for the great importance of the post graduate programs in upgrading the educational process and the advancement of communities, also the évaluation of the post graduate programs at universities considered as an essential part of development and modernization, and eventually leads to the development of the educational process and research.

To achieve goal the study starts by presenting the reality of post graduate programs in universities, in order to study the pros and cons, problems and obstacles to its development and progress, and then the study tries to develop practical steps to evaluate these programs.

The study concludes that it is possible to devel op post graduate programs in uni vers iti es through the practical mechanisms proposed which can be viewed in four stages as follows: First Stage; préparation and planning stage: This includes identification of the évaluation team, the scope and boundaries of the évaluation, the tasks and the concemed parties in these tasks, as well as identifying needs and sources of information necessary.

Second Stage: the stage of identifying the questions and goals and building standards: and it includes putting the questions that will be answered by the évaluation process, and to identify général and spécifié objectives of the post graduate programs, as well as to the process of building évaluation criteria.

Third Stage: data collection and analysis: This includes methods of data collection for post graduate programs at the university, and then the process of analyzing these data and its interprétation.

Fourth Stage: the final stage and the issuance of the évaluation results: a stage to answer évaluation questions and produces the évaluation results.

It is one of critical stages and milestones in the évaluation process because it mcludes the conclusion on such programs which is the main objective of the évaluation process