TY  - JOUR
T1  - Role of Evaluation in Improving Quality and Planning in Higher
Education System
AU - Ghanaatian Jahromi, Fatemeh AU - Ghanaatian Jahromi, Ali 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 26
SP  - 6283
EP  - 6288
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6283.6288
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6283.6288
KW  - Evaluation
KW  -quality improvement
KW  -higher education
KW  -enhancing
KW  -remedial
AB  - Higher education system, as a leading and policy determining system, is able to pave the way for
development in social, cultural and, human dimensions and affect other areas. Awareness of degree of
realization of Higher education goals and knowing about shortcomings and status quo are basic tools that can
help decision-makers, policy-makers and planners in order to improve the methods and achieve to goals and
increased efficiency. Universities are among the most important institutions and communities that need them
and transparency, accountability and quality improvement are needed in them. Dynamism and growth in higher
education require monitoring and evaluation. Evaluation has been considered as a method for increasing social
output of higher education as well as the mechanism for accreditation, the rational allocation of funds, public
accountability, informing the stakeholders, assurance of the realization of goals and continuous improvement.
Given the extent of the activities of the educational system, evaluation of programs, staff and services,
educational organizations can play key role in providing educational quality. The main goal of performance
evaluation is access to accurate information about the performance of staff. This information has several
advantages such as speeding up the decision-making process by showing the strengths and weaknesses of
the various operations, accountability of officials, increasing the sense of solidarity and loyalty, enhancing
leadership power of managers, better communication between managers and staff, identifying remedial
approaches and goal-oriented educational programs.
ER  -