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Jovan Groen; Carolyn Hoessler; Carolyn Ives; Veronica Bamber; Corinne Laverty; Klodiana Kolomitro – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Across higher education, educational developers and their supporting campus communities are being called upon to scale up evidence-informed practices, to enhance student experiences, and to document the changes. This article builds on the work of scholars who have taken up this evaluative challenge, by examining varied aspects of the evidencing…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education, Evidence
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Zaki, Nazar; Turaev, Sherzod; Shuaib, Khaled; Krishnan, Anusuya; Mohamed, Elfadil – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Quality control and assurance plays a fundamental role within higher education contexts. One means by which quality control can be performed is by mapping the course learning outcomes (CLOs) to the program learning outcomes (PLO). This paper describes a system by which this mapping process can be automated and validated. The proposed AI-based…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Natural Language Processing, Higher Education
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John Armstrong; Alice Sullivan – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Athena Swan was established in 2005 with the goal of advancing the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) subjects in higher education. Since then, it has expanded its remit in various ways and has generated some controversy. This paper explains how Athena Swan operates as a policy-scoring scheme,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Higher Education
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Alana Hoare; Shannon Wagner; Catharine Dishke Hondzel – Educational Planning, 2024
Post-secondary institutions are required to complete a variety of quality assurance activities including external program review, a process of inviting external reviewers from outside the institution to provide constructive feedback on all aspects of an academic program. While external program reviews have been completed for decades, there has…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Matthew J. Mayhew; Christa E. Winkler – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Higher education professionals often are tasked with providing evidence to stakeholders that programs, services, and practices implemented on their campuses contribute to student success. Furthermore, in the absence of a solid base of evidence related to effective practices, higher education researchers and practitioners are left questioning what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Program Evaluation
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Keith, Caleb J.; Karnick, Kristine Brunovska; Kohler, Chandra L.; Teske, Eric J.; Ninon, A. Sonia – Assessment Update, 2023
Program review is a critical process in higher education that helps institutions assess and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and services. Program review provides an opportunity for an institution to identify strengths and weaknesses in its programs and services and to develop strategies for improvement. Through the program review process,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Resource Allocation
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Jaime Phillip Muñoz; Catherine Hoyt; Razan Hamed; Arameh Anvarizadeh; Steven D. Taff – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is one of five pillars upholding the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA) strategic plan. Ensuring organizational, educational and governance structures, policies, programs, and services all reflect diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and accessibility (DEIJA) is a priority for the profession. Yet,…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Diversity, Equal Education
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Firm Faith Watson; Anthony A. Piña; Jonathan Small – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2024
Launching a successful new online learning initiative or expanding existing online learning offerings takes careful planning and preparation. Online learning is an institution-wide endeavor, involving multiple departments, functions, and personnel, many of which require modifications or rethinking to meet the needs of fully online learners.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Improvement, Guidelines, Educational Policy
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Blankenberger, Bob; Gehlhausen Anderson, Sophia; Lichtenberger, Eric – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Policymakers and institutional leaders in higher education too often make decisions based on descriptive data analyses or even anecdote when better analysis options could produce more nuanced and more valuable results. Employing the setting of higher education program evaluation at a midwestern regional public university, for this study we…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Public Colleges
Rita R. Zota – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant program provides grants to students who are completing or plan to complete the coursework required to begin a career in teaching. As a condition for receiving a TEACH Grant, a recipient must teach for at least four years in a high-need field at an elementary or…
Descriptors: Grants, Student Educational Objectives, Occupational Aspiration, Teaching (Occupation)
Finney, Sara J.; Wells, Jennifer B.; Henning, Gavin W. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
On their own, student learning and development outcomes assessment data have limited utility for improving programming. We believe outcomes data should not be collected until two fundamental questions can be answered: "Why should this programming result in the desired outcome?" (i.e., program theory) and "Was the intended…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, College Outcomes Assessment, Behavioral Objectives
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Mince, Rosalie V. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
This article describes the components of a program outcomes assessment model based on best practices that can be applied to improve the program review process in institutions of higher education.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Models
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Spencer, Gayle; Smedick, William – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2020
The purpose of this review is to highlight the differences in the new contextual statement and standards from past editions, as well as to discuss and provide examples of how CAS Standards can be utilized by Campus Activities Professionals.
Descriptors: Standards, Higher Education, School Activities, Educational Planning
Luna, Andrew L.; Kendrick, Sherry; Johnson, Melissa – Association for Institutional Research, 2021
Although many institutions and government agencies count degrees as the sole measure of determining departmental or program viability, this method fails to consider other factors such as how many students who are within programs are present to replace students who graduated from those programs or how many credit hours were generated in the area.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Departments, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2021
A for-profit college may convert to nonprofit status for a variety of reasons, such as wanting to align its status and mission. However, in some cases, former owners or other insiders could improperly benefit from the conversion, which is impermissible under the Internal Revenue Code and Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. This…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges, Taxes, Federal Legislation
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