AMOS: an evaluation model for institutions of higher education

✍ Scribed by Willem Os; Pieter J. D. Drenth; George F. Bernaert

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 766 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00148968

✦ Synopsis

Within tertiary education in the Netherlands educational evaluation at course level and also at curriculum level is becoming increasingly normal. Up till now, this aspect of the process of quality control and improvement has not been handled systematically within the framework of institutional policy. An initial step has been taken at the Free University, Amsterdam, with the introduction of AMOS: Analysis Model pertaining to the quality of Education within Faculties (in Dutch: Analyse Model voor het Onderwijs in Studierichtingen).

In the first section of this article the concept (educational) "quality" is defined. Following, a description of the academic context in the Netherlands and the allied problems in accomplishing systematic evaluation is given. In the next section the AMOS system is presented. Emphasis is given to the application at three levels: institution, faculty and course. In the final section the system and its implementation is related with the earlier described academic context and with some criteria pertaining to educational evaluation in general.