Glossary

Schengen Area

The Schengen Area is the area covered by an international treaty abolishing border controls within the Eureopean Union and some other European countries.

• Read more: Visa and residence regulations
• Read more on Europa.eu

Self-assessment

The process of reviewing the quality of ones own institutional or programme's performance and provision.

• INQAAHE, Analytic Quality Glossary

Self-evaluation

See self-assessment above.

Site visit

A site visit is a visit in an official capacity of an assessment panel to a higher education programme and/or institution to verify and evaluate written evidence.

• Qrossroads

Stakeholder

In higher education, a stakeholder is a person or organisation with a legitimate interest in the operation of a programme or institution. A stakeholder may be among many others a staff member, a student, a parent, a ministry or a professional organisation.

• Qrossroads

Student assessment

The total range of written, oral and practical tests, examinations, projects and portfolios that are used to evaluate a student's progress in the unit or module of the programme.
Typically, we refer to formative (progress-focused) and summative (end-performance) assessments.

• Dr. Declan Kennedy, Writing and Using Learning Outcomes - A practical guide, UCC, 2007, p. 76

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