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Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2022
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2023 through 2028 represents the planned direction of the organization for FYs 2023-2028. It continues the 40-plus year commitment to the mission to promote the efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity of the Department's programs…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, Federal Government, Public Agencies
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Stensaker, 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
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015, state education agencies (SEAs) have invested much time, effort, and resources into designing their accountability systems so that they reflect the state's vision and priorities and are in compliance with federal statute. Over the course of the past year, each state has…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Control, Accountability, Educational Legislation
Akers, Beth – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
College has become a risky proposition for students as well as taxpayers. Fewer than six in 10 students who start a degree will ever finish, which means that they won't see a return on the money they've spent to attend--and if they took out a loan from the federal government, they might be left with unaffordable debt. In the latter case, the…
Descriptors: College Role, Risk, Accountability, Federal Government
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Van Nuland, Sonya E.; Rogers, Kem A. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
Academic researchers who seek to publish their work are confronted daily with a barrage of e-mails from aggressive marketing campaigns that solicit them to publish their research with a specialized, often newly launched, journal. Known as predatory journals, they often promise high editorial and publishing standards, yet their exploitive business…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Ethics, Marketing, Writing for Publication
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Ehren, Melanie C. M.; Godfrey, David – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
This paper explores the impact of external accountability on four mechanisms of network-internal quality control and the properties of (mandated) inter-organizational networks. An explorative case study approach examines the external accountability of a newly established educational network (MAT) and how schools and the Trust are held accountable…
Descriptors: Accountability, Institutional Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Cardoso, Sonia; Santiago, Rui; Sarrico, Claudia S. – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
Although students are considered major actors in the quality assessment of universities, the way they perceive this process and the meanings they ascribe to it are still neglected as a research subject. This article aims to reduce this gap by focusing on the social representations of students on quality assessment. Specifically, it tries to…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Evaluation
Johnson, Katelyn Lea – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Preparing students to be successful in high school AP courses and exams begins at the middle school level. SpringBoard is a program created by the CollegeBoard to bridge content expected in high school with the current middle school curriculum. SpringBoard was introduced and piloted in the Colonial School District during the 2014-2015 school year…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Focus Groups, Feedback (Response), Correlation
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Altrichter, Herbert; Kemethofer, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
"New" school inspections are essential parts of "evidence-based governance" concepts and have been implemented by many European countries as a major strategy to assure and improve the effectiveness and quality of their education systems. However, national inspection systems vary in their composition and in their contextual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Online Surveys, Principals, Inspection
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Rosa, Maria J.; Sarrico, Claudia S.; Amaral, Alberto – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
The accountability versus improvement debate is an old one. Although being traditionally considered dichotomous purposes of higher education quality assessment, some authors defend the need of balancing both in quality assessment systems. This article goes a step further and contends that not only they should be balanced but also that other…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Educational Quality, Accountability
Lee, Lung-Sheng Steven – Online Submission, 2013
Globalization in the 21st century has brought innumerable challenges and opportunities to universities and countries. Universities are primarily concerned with how to ensure the quality of their education and how to boost their local and global competitiveness. The pressure from both international competition and public accountability on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Scull, W. Reed; Kendrick, David; Shearer, Rick; Offerman, Dana – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
Distance education permeates the field of professional and continuing education to such an extent that quality assurance (QA) is a topic no distance educator or administrator should avoid. Quality assurance is an issue not just for continuing education but also for higher education generally. Given the disruptive impact of distance education and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Continuing Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control
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Farooq, Muhammad Sabil; Kai, Yuan Tong – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2016
Education means all round development, this all round development means intellectual, social and emotional development. It is only education that can mould the behavior of an individual. READ (Rural Education and Development) Foundation is notfor-profit organization established in 1994 to address the dire need for education and literacy in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
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Sabil Farooq, Muhammad; Kai, Yuan Tong – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2016
AJK (Azad Jammu & Kashmir) government is a small administrative unit under overall sovereignty of Pakistan. It has a total area of 13297 sq kilometers with a population of about 3.8 million. This study critically examines the problems of primary education system in AJK State specifically in govt. primary schools in Pakistan administrative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Politics of Education, Teaching Conditions
Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2012
Accreditation is a process of external quality review used by higher education education to scrutinize colleges, universities, and educational programs for quality assurance and quality improvement. In the United States, accreditation is carried out by private, nonprofit organizations designed for this specific purpose. Institutions and…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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