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The Development and Application of the Meta-evaluation Standards for Thai Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of this research were: developed the meta evaluation standards for an evaluation of internal quality assessment in Thai higher education institutions, validated the meta-evaluation standards, and applied the meta-evaluation standards in evaluating report results of internal quality assessment for Thai higher education institutions. The data was collected from 50 internal quality assessment reports, selfassessment reports, and were analyzed by 28 meta-evaluators. The three kinds of instruments were used consist of meta-evaluation checklist, metaevaluation manual, and meta-evaluator training curriculum. The research finding were: 1) the new meta-evaluation standards 5 sub standards and 38 indicators, 2) the construct validity of meta-evaluation standards usedconfirmatory factor analysis that goodness of fit matched empirical data and the generalizability coefficients were high value when used from more than 2 meta-evaluators and from 5 reports, and 3) the quality of internal quality assessment reports. Moreover, internal quality assessments in higher education institutions were good level based on meta-evaluation standard. Results were beneficial for higher education institutions in providing a guideline that would improve the quality of higher education institutions and ensure that the findings from meta-evaluators had ,efficiency and effectiveness.

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