The Quality, Excellence, and Evaluation Unit

About

In recent years, the academic world has been facing challenging transformations in the field of teaching and learning that require lecturers to refer to and adapt to twenty-first-century skills. The Quality, Excellence, and Evaluation Unit works to improve teaching, increase its effectiveness and promote pedagogical innovation in a way that will make the learning experience of all students meaningful and, at the same time, will also advance the academic staff members on a personal level.

The college’s commitment to excellence in teaching is expressed in a variety of activities whose purpose is to evaluate, improve and promote the methods of teaching, learning, and evaluation in the college; and to help lecturers face the challenges of academic teaching in the twenty-first century:

• Advice and personal guidance for new lecturers and teaching assistants on teaching and evaluation issues.
• Imparting teaching skills to senior staff and teaching assistants through workshops, seminars, and customized personal counseling.
• Organization of teaching, learning, and evaluation seminars, including digitization-integrated teaching (Prizma).
• Continuous monitoring of new trends in teaching methods and new teaching technologies in teaching and learning, and their implementation in the college, in cooperation with the ‘Innovative Pedagogical Space’.
• Holding workshops on appropriate traditional and alternative evaluation, including guidance on the intelligent use of various evaluation tools, developing new tools, analyzing the results of evaluation processes, and drawing conclusions.
• Running a Moodle website with up-to-date teaching, learning, and evaluation information and resources.
• Conducting teaching surveys, analyzing the findings, extracting lessons and providing feedback, publishing the names of the outstanding lecturers in each department, and awarding evaluation certificates.
• Leading the evaluation processes for the teaching quality of academic staff members (including observing/photographing), producing reports and analyzing them, and providing personal feedback to improve teaching (frontal, synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid).
• Coordinating quality and monitoring processes, producing quality reports, monitoring the implementation of recommendations, and implementing changes following the directives of the General Assembly.

Prizma – One-Third Squared

Unit staff & Contact Information

Dr. Lina Bolus, Head of the unit

Dr. Marcel Amasha, Unit coordinator 

The unit is subordinate to the college president or his representative and operates in cooperation with a steering committee of the heads of departments and programs.

Contact: Dr. Lina Bolus, blina@sakhnin.ac.il, 04-905-8081