It should take into account that all the materials or information must be a "dry weight" which truly reflects the activities of teaching and quality management in the institution.

(3) Self Assessment

The self assessment is conducted by the self-assessment committee so as to measure achievement of the stated policies, aims and objectives through application of the quality management and operational control functions at all levels in accordance with the self assessment model. The detailed discussion of the self assessment model is in 3.2. This assessment should emphasize the outcomes of the education and training processes. The members of committee examine the necessary assessment materials and discuss them within committee meetings. Each member gives scores on all items of assessment under individual judgment. The self-assessment committee provides the final score of the internal quality assessment including a comprehensive report which describes the main comments about education quality and quality control.

(4) Report Review

The report from the assessment must be explained to the staff in the maritime institution. The achievement will encourage staff to make greater progress in future. It is also very important to analyze what shortcomings exist and where the problems are from. This review provides a measure of the qualitative level of the institutional education.

(5) Recommendations for Improving Quality Assurance

The self-assessment committee provides recommendations to the head of the institution for reference when a new plan to improve institutional quality assurance is implemented. These recommendations should emphasize the measures by which the problems can be overcome.

The recommendations are also provided to the government and other concerned organizations so that these bodies may consider some common problems in the MET system. In particular, the government may make a new policy or put pressure on all maritime institutions to improve quality assurance.

3.2 Self-Assessment Model

The self-assessment model is given in table 2.

(1) The structure of the self-assessment model

The structure of the self-assessment model may be divided into three levels of items. The first level (A) consists of education quality and quality management & control. The second level (B) consists of the main functions relating to the quality assessment. The third level (C) consists of the supported items which are described in detail. Each item on the third level covers a specific area which is reflected the education quality and activities of quality assurance in the maritime institutions.

The assessment can be done by means of this model. Each item has its own weighting (w) relating to the higher level. Therefore, the result of the assessment may be given by the formula below:

R = A1 W1 + A2 W2

= A1 (ΣB1 W1 ΣCj Wj)W1 + A2 (ΣB1 W1, ΣCj Wj)W2

where :

R = result of assessment

A1 = education quality at the first level

A2 = quality management & control at the first level

W1,W2 = the specific weighting relating to A1 and A2

Bi or Cj = items at a second level or third level

Wi,Wj = the specific weightings relating to Bi, Cj

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