What is Site Visit

Sustaining the quality in higher education requires the evaluators to decide in line with the standards, namely accreditation. In the accreditation process, although there are different applications in different countries, the institution or program generally makes a self-evaluation, and then a decision is made by making field visits by experts. In this process, the evaluators' decision whether the operation conforms to the standards can overlap with Provus' discrepancy evaluation model. In the discrepancy evaluation model, performance and standards are compared and it is decided whether there is a difference. This coincides with the accreditation process. In this chapter, the accreditation process is considered as program evaluation and this process is associated with Provus' discrepancy evaluation model.