Evidence-based university development
By providing, processing and analyzing data, conducting surveys and evaluating structural units or measures, the ZQA performs tasks for an evidence-based university development with special emphasis on studying and teaching. However, also issues concerning research, the promotion of young academics, the promotion of equality and diversity, internationalization, digitization or transfer can be subjects of these surveys, analyses and evaluations. Furthermore, the ZQA regularly evaluates projects or facilities and offers of the TU Dresden and its partner institutions or advises them on the development of evaluation concepts (for example, the TUDIAS Preparatory College or the model study program of the Faculty of Medicine).
In the future, for the area of studying and teaching, it is planned to establish and continuously update a data portal for all study programs, taking into account survey data, internally processed university statistics, anonymized data from the examination database (module statistics), and other suitable data sources. This portal ought to serve the study programs and the management structures as a central source of information for continuous quality development, especially at times when quality analyses as part of the quality management for studying and teaching are being conducted.
Here you can find a sample of previous projects:
Survey for the evaluation of the University Journal (2020)
User survey on satisfaction with IT services (2019)
Support of the employee survey on stress and resources at the TUD as a workplace (2019)
Evaluation of the Equality concept of the TU Dresden
From April to November 2013 and from December 2017 to May 2018, the ZQA supported an external evaluation of the TU Dresden's equality concept for the second time.
Evaluation of the measures of the Institutional Strategy (2016)
In the summer of 2011, the rectorate of the TU Dresden decided to guarantee a continuation of positively rated projects. Within the application to the Excellence Initiative it was specified that a detailed evaluation of individual projects would be carried out by a group of internal and external experts around the end of the fourth year of funding. This will presumably be organized and carried out by the ZQA until August 2016. This was organized and conducted by the ZQA from November 2015 to July 2016. The report on the results of the survey was presented in August 2016. Learn more here.
Survey for the audit as a family-friendly university (2016)
Survey for the evaluation of the project "SprInt" (2016)
Survey for the evaluation of the project "Project Scouts"(2016)
Evaluation of the Career Service of the TU Dresden (2013)
From October until March 2013, the ZQA has accompanied an external evaluation of the Career Service of the TU Dresden.