A CONSIDERATION BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS OF TURKISH FOLK DANCE IN TERMS OF INTERNAL EVALUATION PROCESSES WITHIN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PERIOD

Abstract

Prepared by an institution annually, Institutional Self-Evaluation Report (ISEP) is taken as a basis for external evaluation process performed at least once in five years and for annual internal evaluation monitoring of the Higher Education Institution and it is prepared in order to achieve required information for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Higher Education Institution by Higher Education Quality Council. ISEP process includes education and training, research and development, administrative system, quality assurance system, institutional information, result and evaluation processes. The departments of Turkish Folk Dances at Conservatories perform within the context of Quality Works of their universities. This study aims to establish the paths to follow in the process of quality by determining the situations of Turkish Folk Dances Departments of State Conservatories. It is an essential study for Turkish Folk Dance Departments in terms of assigning common references and being recognized in a universal framework. This study will determine the situation which is limited within the frame of mission and vision, lesson plans for eight semester, academic staff and matriculationconditionsthat scanned from the web sites of İstanbul Technical UniversityTurkish Folk DanceDepartment, Ege UniversityTurkish Folk DanceDepartment, Sakarya UniversityStateConservatoryTurkish Folk DanceDepartment, Gaziantep UniversityTurkish Folk DanceDepartment, Giresun UniversityTurkish Folk DanceDepartment, Dicle UniversityTurkish Folk DanceDepartment.A model will be constituted by examining Sakarya University State Conservatory Turkish Folk Dance Department within the scope of Education of Internal Evaluation of the Institution (KİDR) bargained by Council of Higher Education (YOK).