Internal Quality Assurance of Academic Programs: A Case Study in Vietnamese Higher Education

Nhung Thi Tuyet Pham, Cuong Huu Nguyen, Huong Thi Pham and Hien Thi Thu Ta

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 4, 21582440221144419

Abstract: Quality assurance of higher education has been carried out across the world in the past few decades. Therefore, setting up an effective internal quality assurance (IQA) system that fosters improvement in teaching and learning is of great significance. This research examined whether the IQA system was associated with the continuous improvement in the quality of academic programs in Vietnamese higher education institutions (HEIs). The study looked into the IQA system’s infrastructure, its instruments and its efforts at program improvement across different types of HEIs including infrastructure, instruments, and continuous quality improvement efforts in academic programs that are implemented across the different types of institutions. A total of 715 responses from the survey and 46 interviews were analyzed for this paper. The findings demonstrated that the IQA of academic programs in Vietnamese higher education built the fundamental infrastructure and used indirect instruments but did not frequently use the IQA results to continuously improve educational quality. On the basis of these findings, recommendations are made to improve the IQA system of academic programs.

Keywords: internal quality assurance; academic programs; continuous quality improvement; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440221144419

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