Implementation of Higher Education Commission Standards for M.Sc Electronics Program

 

Tahira Bibi¹ and Nazia Altaf²

¹Lecturer, Department of Educational Planning Policies Studies & Leadership Faculty of Education, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, tahira.naushahi@aiou.edu.pk

²Department of Educational Planning Policies Studies & Leadership Faculty of Education, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, nazia.altaf1@gmail.com

 

Abstract

Program evaluation is a systematic process used to investigate the effectiveness of a program. The Higher Education Commission has developed the Performance Evaluation Standards for the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).This study was directed to the evaluation of master of electronics program on the bases of these performance evaluation standards developed by Higher Education Commission and checked their practical implementations. The data were collected from Questionnaires and check list. IBM SPSS Statistics Version20 was used for analysis of data. Analysis was done by finding the individual means of respondents. Each standard was treated separately. Findings analysis showed that student standard was between the uncertain and agreement level, faculty standard was found tending towards agreement level and resources standard was found inclining towards uncertain level. Collectively all the standards found between the interval of uncertain and agreement levels. As deficiencies were found in all the standards implementation used for evaluation purpose, therefore the program needed improvement regarding these standards.

Keywords: Performance Evaluation Standards, MSc Electronics Program, Higher Education Commission