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ENQA Workshop on “Assessing educational quality - knowledge production and the role of experts”, Oslo, Norway, 14-15 February 2008 (24. Oct. 2007)

ENQA organised the workshop in cooperation with the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT).

Among the discussed themes were: the balance between the expert panel evaluations and the research-based evaluations, the relationship between the regulation (of processes and criteria) by agencies and the actual expert knowledge, the authority of reports (expert knowledge in public), the composition of review teams (disciplinary experts vs. QA experts), and recruitment and training of experts.

Please see the programme (doc) and announcement (doc).

Workshop documents

Presentation by Peder Haug, Volda University College, Norway
"External expert panel evaluation vs. research based evaluation of higher education" (ppt)

Presentation by Karen Junker, County Governor's office in Augst-Agder, Norway
"The quality contract: experts and agency rules – how to balance expertise and regulated procedures and standards" (ppt)

Presentation by Kirsten Hofgaard Lycke, University of Oslo, Norway
"Room for expertise?" (ppt)

Presentation by Christian Thune, former president of ENQA
"The quality contract: experts and agency rules" (ppt)

Presentation by Rolf Heusser, OAQ, Switzerland
"ECA - Code for the selection of experts" (ppt)

The participants of the workshop were, prior to the workshop, asked to answer a few questions on the tasks and status of experts in their own agencies. Presentation of the summary of results by Anne Karin Sørskår, NOKUT, Norway
"Experts´ recommendations and decisions, criteria for selection, publicity and mandate" (ppt)

Presentation by Karl Dittrich, NVAO, The Netherlands
"Considerations on publications: advantages and disadvantages of publications of accreditation decisions and reports" (ppt)

Presentation by Torunn Klemp, Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway
"Expert knowledge in public" (ppt)

Presentation by Ingrid Torsteinson, Bergen Deaconess University College
"Expert knowledge in public: revision of the Norwegian national Bachelor in Nursing " (ppt)