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Direct linkStensaker, Bjørn; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Maassen, Peter – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: In recent decades, higher education institutions have been encouraged to develop their own internal management systems as a response to perceived quality challenges in the sector. These quality management (QM) systems have often been found to mainly reflect external accountability requirements, with less focus on coherent study programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Control, Accountability
Download full textMüller, Frank J. – Open Praxis, 2021
The article shows in which areas other countries can benefit from the work of the Norwegian platform NDLA (ndla.no). This assessment is based on interviews with 13 representatives of the platform, three cooperation partners and one representative of Norwegian textbook publishers. The experiences described refer to a large-scale Open Educational…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Secondary School Students, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks
Tangen, Reidun – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This paper addresses ethical issues in educational research with a focus on the interplay between research ethics and both internal and external quality of research. Research ethics is divided into three domains: (1) ethics "within" the research community; (2) ethics concerning relationships with "individuals and groups directly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Ethics, Quality Control
Reinertsen, Anne Beate – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
This article is about developing school-based self-assessing recursive pedagogies and case/action research practices and/or approaches in schools, and teachers, teacher researchers and researchers simultaneously producing and theorising their own practices using second-order cybernetics as a thinking tool. It is a move towards pragmatic…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Teacher Competencies, Foreign Countries
Vincent-Lancrin, Stephan; Pfotenhauer, Sebastian – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
The "Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education" were developed and adopted to support and encourage international cooperation and enhance the understanding of the importance of quality provision in cross-border higher education. The purposes of the "Guidelines" are to protect students and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Education, International Cooperation
Engebretsen, Eivind; Heggen, Kristin; Eilertsen, Heidi Annett – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This article studies discourses within the accreditation of Norwegian higher education conducted by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), using one concrete case (the accreditation of bachelor programs in nursing). Analysis of policy documents and accreditation reports are influenced by two of Foucault's concepts of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Discourse Analysis, Quality Control, Accreditation (Institutions)
Schendel, Diana E.; Bresnahan, Michaeline; Carter, Kim W.; Francis, Richard W.; Gissler, Mika; Grønborg, Therese K.; Gross, Raz; Gunnes, Nina; Hornig, Mady; Hultman, Christina M.; Langridge, Amanda; Lauritsen, Marlene B.; Leonard, Helen; Parner, Erik T.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Sandin, Sven; Sourander, Andre; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Suominen, Auli; Surén, Pål; Susser, Ezra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The International Collaboration for Autism Registry Epidemiology (iCARE) is the first multinational research consortium (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Sweden, USA) to promote research in autism geographical and temporal heterogeneity, phenotype, family and life course patterns, and etiology. iCARE devised solutions to challenges in…
Descriptors: Autism, Epidemiology, International Cooperation, Consortia
Langfeldt, Liv; Stensaker, Bjorn; Harvey, Lee; Huisman, Jeroen; Westerheijden, Don F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
The article analyses the role of peer review within broader external quality assurance schemes. Based on an analytical framework emphasising that modern quality assurance schemes are designed as a balancing act between standardised guidelines and professional judgement, the article uses data from a recent evaluation of NOKUT, the Norwegian Quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Peer Evaluation, Cultural Pluralism
OECD Publishing, 2013
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has been planned as an ongoing program of assessment. The first cycle of the assessment has involved two "rounds." The first round, which is covered by this report, took place over the period of January 2008-October 2013. The main features of the first cycle of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Skills, Test Construction
Begg, Ingvild Sigstad – Child Care in Practice, 2011
During the last couple of years the Norwegian media have on several occasions highlighted failings in the Child Welfare Services, and in particular the failure of finding good foster carers for children and young people who need it. An additional discussion has been the use of private actors in the care market, a discussion that to some extent…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Welfare Services
Pižorn, Karmen; Moe, Eli – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012
This article is a validation study of two national large-scale tests that measure the language proficiency of 11/12 year-old English learners in Norway and Slovenia. Following the example of Alderson and Banerjee (2008), the authors of the article have employed the EALTA guidelines for good practice to validate the tests, and to formulate major…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Guidelines, Test Construction
Brandt, Synnove – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2011
Knowledge about disabled students in higher education is fragmented. It is therefore difficult to assess whether policy goals actually promote better conditions for disabled students. The aim of this article is to take a closer look at the experiences of disabled students in Norway and, in light of policy goals, to identify obstacles in the higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disabilities, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Stensaker, Bjorn; Langfeldt, Liv; Harvey, Lee; Huisman, Jeroen; Westerheijden, Don – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
After more than two decades of external quality assurance, there is an increasing interest in questions concerning the impact and effects of this activity. Following an external evaluation of NOKUT--the Norwegian quality assurance agency, this article studies the impact of external quality assurance in detail by analysing quantitative and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Educational Quality, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
Michelsen, Svein; Stensaker, Bjorn – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
The article discusses the question of student participation in higher education governance at the national and the institutional levels in Norway. Two ideal-type perspectives on governance are developed in order to illuminate the Norwegian case: a democratic perspective and a market perspective. The article provides a brief overview of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Participation, Governance, Quality Control
Crosier, David; Dalferth, Simon; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2010
This 2010 edition of the "Focus" report has been prepared for the European Ministerial Conference in Budapest/Vienna, 11-12 March 2010, that officially launches the European Higher Education Area. The report has been developed as a fully collaborative exercise between the Eurydice Network and the Bologna Follow-up Group (BFUG), with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, National Standards
