Implementation Regulations Governing Ministry of Education Handling of Junior College Evaluations Article 5

The MOE and each commissioned institution shall conduct junior college evaluations and related work in accordance with the following principles and procedures:1.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall set up an evaluation committee to undertake integrated overall planning of evaluation matters.2.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall notify a junior college that is going to be evaluated a year before the evaluation is conducted. However, this does not apply in the case of ad hoc evaluations.3.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall draw up an evaluation implementation plan for all evaluations and shall announce all evaluations except ad hoc evaluations six months before they are conducted.4.The evaluation implementation plans referred to in the previous subparagraph shall include the items to be evaluated, evaluation criteria (indicators), evaluation procedures, handling of evaluation results, preliminary evaluation appeals, appeals, evaluation committee members’ qualifications, training, ethical conduct, handling of any conflict of interest, and other related matters.5.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall organize information sessions for junior colleges which are going to be evaluated to explain in detail how the evaluation will be conducted.6.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall send a preliminary evaluation report to each of the junior colleges that has been evaluated in the current round within four months after the preliminary evaluation reports for all those junior colleges have been completed.7.A junior college which disagrees with the preliminary evaluation report shall lodge a preliminary evaluation appeal with the MOE or the commissioned institution within two weeks of receiving that report. If there are grounds for the preliminary evaluation appeal, the MOE or the commissioned institution shall revise the preliminary evaluation report. If there are no grounds for a preliminary evaluation appeal, the preliminary evaluation report will stand and the MOE or the commissioned institution shall then finalize the evaluation report and the results of the evaluation.8.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall make the results of the evaluation public and send a copy of the evaluation report to the junior college that was evaluated.9.A junior college which disagrees with the evaluation report shall lodge an appeal with the MOE or the commissioned institution within one month after the results have been made public. If there are grounds for the appeal, the MOE or the commissioned institution shall revise the results of the evaluation or undertake a repeat evaluation, and shall separately make the final results of the evaluation public. 10.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall formulate a fair and objective mechanism for handling preliminary evaluation appeals and appeals lodged by junior colleges it has evaluated.11.The MOE or the commissioned institution shall formulate methods for dealing with the results of different types of evaluations, in accordance with their nature and purpose, and formulate evaluation follow-up and re-evaluation mechanisms.