Program-Based Quality Assurance Model with Decision Support System

Quality education is regarded as an essential provider to the country's economic advancement. This study aimed to design and develop a Program-Based Quality Assurance Model with Decision Support System for St. Paul University Philippines. The researcher created a model and developed a database management tool to assess the quality assurance mechanism employed by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) and Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA) to ensure a reliable delivery of quality education on the program it provides. The study employed the Rapid Application Development Model for the software development and Quantitative method using descriptive survey was used to gather data. The problems, issues, and challenges in accreditation with respect to preparation, document and records management and reporting were utilized by the researcher for the development of the system. The developed system is a web-based application, thus, can be easily accessed. As a result, the system effectively stores and retrieved data needed for the preparation of documents and records for accreditation. Thus, the features of the developed system were accepted to be useful based on the results of the evaluation in accordance with the software compliance criteria of ISO 25010 Software Quality Standards with overall weighted mean of 4.12 12 with a descriptive interpretation of “Great Extent”. The developed system can be of great help to the Accreditation Team to monitor accomplishments of all programs along with the recommendations for proper documentation and record keeping.