SELF-ACCREDITATION, BENCHMARKING AND LEIBIG’S LAW OF MINIMUM IN THE ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES

Year 2024, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 1 - 11, 27.05.2024

Surjya Saikia

Abstract

Higher academic quality is a-priori feature of an HEIs, irrespective of its academic format. While assessing the qualities in terms of objectives of education, accreditors emphasize specifically on some selective parameters extracted through pre-designed indictors on a scale and justify the performance of the HEI. It is expected that a HEI must conform to the goals of the institute in particular and the globe as a whole. Performances in higher accreditation can be improved through inclusive self-accreditation, or benchmarking within the institute on a multiple way of assessment (within or between indicators, parameters, agencies, institutes etc.). A literature survey was done to gather information in this regard. The self-assessment approach has been explained on the back ground of the theory of Liebig’s law of minimum (an ecological theory from bioscience). The idea is now presented on a theoretical basis based on integration of parameters to Liebig’s law of minimum. The proposal of Calculated Benchmarking Score would provide testable and measurable insights to the idea proposed here. This study proposes a conceptual but executable strategy which can be practiced for improving assessment outcomes of higher education institutes. With institution specific modifications, it can also be applied to other academic institutions.

Keywords

Accreditation, benchmarking, Ranking, Higher education, Self-accreditation

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