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Direct linkOravec, Jo Ann – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The dramatic expansion of the use of metrics in higher education institutions worldwide has brought with it gaming and manipulation practices designed to enhance artificially both individual and institutional reputation, including coercive citation, forced joint authorship, ghostwriting, H-index manipulation, and many others. This article maps…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Ethics, Institutional Characteristics
Download full textSalmi, Jamil – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2015
A recent report published in the United Kingdom proposed the image of "an avalanche" to describe the radical changes affecting tertiary education in many parts of the world (Barber, Donnelly and Rizvi, 2013). Indeed, powerful transformative forces of three kinds--rupture factors, crisis factors and stimulus factors--are challenging…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Government Role, Educational Change, Postsecondary Education
Stanton, Geoff; David, Miriam; Hall, Geoff; Brown, Richard; Ebdon, Les; Kendall, Steve; Watters, Kate – Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2008
Over a decade has gone by since the report of the Widening Participation Committee--"Learning works"--was presented to the Further Education Funding Council. Ten years on, this report asks how far have we come in the decade since "Learning works"? What progress have we made? And what barriers have we yet to overcome? Bringing…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Access to Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
Commission on the Future of Florida's Public Universities, Tallahassee. – 1978
A 1977 review is presented of Florida's State University System, which was conducted by the Commission on the Future of Florida's Public Universities--a blue ribbon commission. The current status of the system and some indications of the importance of high quality universities to Florida's future are considered, and recommendations for improving…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Planning, College Programs
Hattendorf, Lynn C. – 1996
Since educational statistics, which are relatively easy to obtain, can only attempt to measure "quality," this paper asks how quality in higher education is assessed and how educational rankings, which are defined as benchmarks or attempts to measure, contribute to this process. The paper notes that while attempts to rank institutions of…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedRau, William; Leonard, Wilbert M., II – American Sociologist, 1990
Analyzes 60 sociology doctoral programs from 1975 through 1980. Measures per capita and gross productivity of each department. Shows that conventional assessment measures contain deficiencies. Documents a tendency for conflict between productivity and graduate education. Includes recommendations for future assessments that would measure not only…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Evaluation Research
