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Peer reviewedFloden, Robert E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
Flexner's report on the procedures, agents, and effects of medical school accreditation emphasizes common sense and unstructured observation, rather than objective social science. Flexner would probably declare that lay people, rather than the National Education Association or the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, should…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
