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Article
Continuous Quality Improvement of Leadership Education Program Through PDCA Cycle
Author(s)
Tomoko Maruyama, Masahiro Inoue
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1514/2016.01.004
Affiliation(s)
Tomoko Maruyama, Ph.D., assistant professor, Office for Educational Planning and Research, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan.
Masahiro Inoue, Ph.D., professor, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan.
ABSTRACT
The reinforcement of quality assurance system in university education is in great demand. With the goal of quality assurance of a class curriculum, the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle was applied on leadership education on graduate students of engineering, resulting in seven years of continuously improved quality of the education program in which students achieved their learning goals. At the end of the course, the authors analyzed the gap between the target and the progress made to date and reflected the next course design with the evaluation results for improvement. The traditional leadership education only gave students knowledge regarding leadership in the form of lectures. Therefore, how to apply this knowledge through students’ action has been a big issue for them. The leadership education program was introduced to improve leadership ability of students, which integrates knowledge, simulated experiences, and real actions. This leadership education program was conducted in the masters program at the Shibaura Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Science between 2008 and 2013. The diagnostic, formative, and overall evaluations were made to measure the extent to which students achieved their goals. With evaluation results of clarified learning outcomes, a PDCA cycle was repeated in order to improve quality of the education program in three stages. This research concludes that this cycle led to the achievement to produce effective leadership actions of students.
KEYWORDS
leadership education, quality improvement, plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle, course evaluation
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