ASQ - Education Division

Shaping the Future through
Quality in Education
and Professional Development

The ASQ Education Division informs and networks on knowledge and best practices related to Quality in Education. Our members are educators, administrators, and quality professionals throughout the world at all education levels (primary, secondary, higher education, and in the workplace).

We network on Quality in Education topics including: the Baldrige Education Criteria, workforce development, educational leadership, student learning outcomes, student retention, scholarly teaching, international quality assurance, K12 outreach and education quality standards. Become a member and participate in our activities (See About the Division).

The Education Division's 2nd Annual Advancing the STEM Agenda Conference is gearing up. This year's conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Stout on July 16-17, 2012.Read our Call for Abstracts and Papers and consider submitting an abstract.

We invite you to contribute your time and energy to our division's activities. Visit our Get Involved page

Featured Content

Systems Thinking: Critical to Quality Improvement in Higher Education
by Julie Furst-Bowe, Ed.D. Provost of the University of Wisconsin-Stout
Guest Commentary in the latest issue of the Quality Approaches in Higher Education. A discussion of the success of using systems thinking to bring the entire university together for addressing quality improvement. The University of Wisconsin-Stout is used as an example.

Read the latest ASQ Higher Education Brief on Assessment and Accountability

LEADing Your School to a Quality Future
by Amanda Hankel
A discussion of Tami Miller and Brenda Byrd's NQEC presentation, "LEADing your School to a Quality Future" of the importance of leadership in K12 efforts in improving student achievement. Miller and Byrd are involved with the Center for Excellence at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce in Greenville, SC.

For more articles, see our online library including articles from the ASQ Primary and Seconday Brief and the ASQ Higher Education Brief

Learning Opportunities

Workforce Development Network
Is your company's need for workforce training heating up? Tell us about your challenges for bringing in new employees in our new network on workforce development. See all our issues of the Workforce Development Brief there (activities updates) to give you ideas for effective quality training of new employees and retraining of your current employees.

Watch these 11 webinars on Continuous Improvement in Education: Proven Strategies for Improvement Success, created by educators who attended have attended previous NQEC conferences. This collection of webinars includes presentations by educators from the Baldrige National Awards K12 school system winners. (ASQ membership may be required) Click here

Our members asked for videos on improving college teaching. Here is a video by Dr. Richard Felder on active learning, including some classroom examples. Dr. Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University Click here

Implementing Continuous Improvement in the Netherlands: View a 4-minute video with Principal Joyce de Vries of the Agora School District in the Netherlands. This video includes examples of preparing students for the 21st Century learning through the use of continuous improvement thinking. This video was included in the 2011 NQEC presentation by Rien Spies, Superintendent of Agora School District. View the video

Check out our podcasts Click here

Click here to see our tweets on latest ASQ Education News and education news of interest @ASQ_EduDiv (you do not need to have an account on Twitter)