Assessor Management
Assessor Management
In view of the important role of assessors in accreditation process, assessor capacity development and management are key pillars. Accreditation in Cambodia is a very new concept and mobilizing the participation of scholars and academia in accreditation process is quite difficult. However, from 2003 up to early 2010, ACC have been forming a pool of 104 assessors. It is worthy to note that the assessors, called external assessors, are recruited from different sectors, including public sector, private sector, non-governmental organizations and higher education institutions. Though the selection process is transparent, ACC is still confronting with complaints from different corners regarding the age and experience of assessors. All the recruited assessors must go through a one-week training workshop on assessment process and methods. The workshop aims to equip the assessors with research skills, critical and analytical thinking, and communication skills to be applied in the accreditation process. The training program, in addition, is a combination of theory and real practice of site visits during the training. That means, at the end of the training program, all assessors have full opportunity to actually put all of their learning theories into practice. They are allocated into teams of site visits to higher education institutions and under the guidance of training facilitators and they have chance to conduct mock assessments.
