What is a QEP?
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a carefully designed, focused course of action to improve the quality of Student Learning. Think of Student Learning in a broad-based, holistic view—changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes and/or values that are attributable to the collegiate experience.
It is also a Core Requirement of the Southern Association’s Peer Review for our accreditation and part of the institution’s comprehensive, ongoing planning and evaluation process. Strategies for evaluation should be linked to student learning outcomes.
The QEP is a tool for institutional improvement designed to be:
- An opportunity for the institution to accept a challenge to make itself better
- An opportunity to focus on educational effectiveness in a way that targets a key topic or issue about the quality of student learning
- A benefit to constituencies (students, faculty, and professional staff) in a way that they want to be benefited
- A transformation in the accreditation process to a forward-looking event that will yield substantial benefits for the institution
- Answers to the questions -- Where do we want to be? How can we get there?
- An opportunity that challenges us to look through the windshield, not just the rearview mirror
For information about the Texas A&M Quality Enhancement Plan, please contact Dr. Martyn Gunn .
For information about QEP proposals, please contact Dr. Loraine Phillips .