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Guidelines for Preparing and Submission of the Programme Accreditation Report

4.4 HOW TO WRITE PART D: SELF-REVIEW REPORT

The Self-Review Report analysed the information provided in Part C and comment on it.

The process to write this part:
1. Complete the writing of Part C.
2. Appoint evaluators to complete the Part D within 2 weeks. Preferably a few senior members (with the
department for at least 10 years) in the department who knows about the department. Preferably with
experience in accreditation and curriculum review.
3. The report should have two sections
a) Section 1: Grading of each area for Part C.
b) Section 2: Identification of strength and weakness and the suggested CQI.
4. The Programme Coordinator and Head of department to review and act on the comments of this report to
prepare for answering the comments from the Panels.

Section 1: Grading of Each Area for Part C

General description of the scores.

Based on the suggestions on how to write Part C in the earlier section, the scores will be:

Failing scores:
Score =1 Absolutely Inadequate OR Score = 2. Slightly Adequate
1. The write up
a) Does not address the COPPA requirements (1)
b) Did not follow the instructions on what to write (2)

2. The Appendix/ evidence
a) Unavailable evidence (1)
b) Irrelevant evidence (1)
c) Not prepared properly (as in the required format) (2)

Passing Scores:
Basic requirement. In order to get at least score 3
1. The write up
a) Follow the instructions on what to write.
2. The Appendix/evidence
a) All the required relevant evidences are available

Based on the professional judgement of the evaluators.

Score 3: Satisfactorily Adequate
# Fulfill the standards as stated in COPPA Second Edition as well as the programme standards and other
applicable standards.
Score 4: Adequate as expected
# The policies/ guidelines/ implementation have been reviewed (the effectiveness have been measured and
discussion on possible improvements (CQI) have been carried out)
Score 5: Excellent
# The implementation is very effective in ensuring quality with the culture of constant improvement.
a) CQI have effectively improved the system
b) The system can be considered as an extreme good practice that is recommended to be implemented
in other programmes.

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