PDCA Cycle for Quality Assurance

Quality assurance S&T offers support to S&T study programmes and teachers for closing the PDCA-cycles (plan-do-check-act) on respectively programme and study unit (module or course) levels. In general we distinguish four PDCA-cycli that are interlinked: a PDCA-cycle on institution level, a PDCA-cyle on faculty level, a PDCA-cycle on programme level and a PDCA-cycle on study unit level. The institution level PDCA-cycle serves as input for the faculty level PDCA-cycle and vice versa, the faculty level PDCA-cycle serves as input for the programme level and vice-versa, and the programme level PDCA-cycle serves as input for the study unit level PDCA-cycle and vice versa. Connecting links are frameworks and guidelines. Bottom-up information flows serve as input for control (Source: CELT). The phases of the PDCA-cycle do not necessarily run consecutively, they often overlap.