Standard 5: Quality Assurance System and Continuous Improvement – Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
Components
Components
R5.1 Quality Assurance System
The provider has developed, implemented, and modified, as needed, a functioning quality assurance system that ensures a sustainable process to document operational effectiveness. The provider documents how data enter the system, how data are reported and used in decision making, and how the outcomes of those decisions inform programmatic improvement.
R5.2 Data Quality
The provider’s quality assurance system from R5.1 relies on relevant, verifiable, representative, cumulative, and actionable measures to ensure interpretations of data are valid and consistent.
R5.3 Stakeholder Involvement
The provider includes relevant internal (e.g., EPP administrators, faculty, staff, candidates) and external (e.g., alumni, practitioners, school and community partners, employers stakeholders in program evaluation and continuous improvement processes.
R5.4 Continuous Improvement
The provider regularly, systematically, and continuously assesses performance against its goals and relevant standards, tracks results over time, documents modifications and/or innovations and their effects on EPP outcomes.
