The Accreditors will initially make their own individual evaluation of the institution based on the Self-Study Report. The final evaluation will be made only after validating the Self-Study Report data/information, and gathering additional or missing information by conducting actual interviews, reviewing documents, making observations, and conducting conferences during the on-site visit.

The rating system to be used in the instrument is specified in each Indicator.

Where an Indicator includes multiple Elements, the Accreditor will consider all these Elements. Individual weightages were also assigned to each Element. A sample is shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Rating Elements in Criterion I. Indicator A - Administrative Structure and Bodies

1. How frequent does the institution communicate its vision and mission to stakeholders (administrators, governing board members, student, parent's faculty, staff and community)?

In this example, assuming that Element 1 is given a weighted point of 8, an institution gets a rating of 5. 

The overall Rating of the institution will numerically form a total of weighted 1000 points which are distributed to the seven Criteria in the following scheme:

Table 2 The Criteria with Weighted Points

 

The weighted points assigned to each Criterion like in Table 2 :Criterion I - Governance and Management - 100) are further sub-divided among the Indicators within the Criterion. Under Criterion I, Indicator A - Administrative Structure and Bodies, is assigned 50 points out of the 100 (Please refer to Table 3 of The Procedure).