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Hammer, Sara; Abawi, Lindy; Gibbings, Peter; Jones, Hazel; Redmond, Petrea; Shams, Syed – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Within the higher education context, capstone units can be viewed as a significant means of assuring intended learning outcomes for programmes. They provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply prior and new disciplinary learning, as well as employability skills and graduate attributes. This paper describes the first stage of an…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
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Tapsir, Ruzela; Nik Azis, Nik Pa – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
Value has been identified as an essential aspect towards the quality in mathematics education at various levels of the system, institutional, curriculum, education management, and classroom interactions. However, few studies were focused on values, its development, measurement, and impact in education as compared to other affective aspects such as…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Mathematics Education, Value Added Models, Test Construction
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Ding, Yan; Gao, Yaping; Lu, Fang – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
This paper aims to examine whether and how the US-based Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric-Design Standards for Online and Blended Courses apply to the Chinese higher education environment. Suitability and matchability of QM Standards are respectively examined through a questionnaire and course reviews at Fudan University, a leading…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
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Kohoutek, Jan – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
Utilising insights from policy instrument theory, the article analyses the design, functioning and effects of the tools used by the Czech Accreditation Commission (CAC) and the Slovak Accreditation Commission (SAC) in the 2000s. Aside from programme accreditation, the other tools analysed are: institutional approval, institutional evaluations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Evaluation
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Ansah, Francis – Quality in Higher Education, 2015
This study is based on a pragmatist analysis of selected international accounts on quality assurance in higher education. A pragmatist perspective was used to conceptualise a logical internal quality assurance model to embed and support the alignment of graduate competencies in curriculum and assessment of Ghanaian polytechnics. Through focus…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Focus Groups
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Sánchez, Carles Rostan; Ortiz, Dolors Cañabate; Carrasco, Mònica González; Carbo, Pilar Albertín; Burriel, Marc Pérez – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2015
Introduction: Despite academic climate being a key aspect of teaching quality in academic institutions, few studies conducted in the university context have analyzed this construct systematically. Method: Given the absence of specific tools to apply to university, we propose the construction of a tool for assessing college students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Social Environment, College Students, Student Attitudes
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van Schalkwyk, Susan; Cilliers, Francois; Adendorff, Hanelie; Cattell, Karin; Herman, Nicoline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
This article foregrounds the iterative journey of a group of educational development (ED) practitioners at a research-led university towards an enhanced understanding of the ED opportunities we offer. Reflecting on the intention of our interventions to facilitate academics' professional learning, we developed a framework within which the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Professional Development, Intervention, Foreign Countries
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Zandi, Hamed; Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Alavi, Seyed Mohammad – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
Reviewing the test specifications to improve the quality of language tests may be a routine process in professional testing systems. However, there is a paucity of research about the effect of specifications review on improving the quality of small-scale tests. The purpose of the present study was twofold: how specifications review could help…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Language Tests, Test Items
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Ali, Hairuddin Mohd; Musah, Mohammed Borhandden – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the quality culture and workforce performance in the Malaysian higher education sector. The study also aims to test and validate the psychometric properties of the quality culture and workforce performance instruments used in the study. Design/methodology/approach: A total…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Total Quality Management, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
van Loo, Jasper; Schmid, Eleonora – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2012
European countries have set themselves 22 specific goals by 2014 to support their long-term vision for vocational education and training (VET). This report is a first step in understanding progress by mid-2012 towards these goals, endorsed in 2010 in the Bruges communique to help achieve the Europe 2020 agenda. Attention has clearly focused on…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Educational Trends
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Law, Dennis C. S.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
A Chinese translation of the Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS), a quantitative instrument employed mainly in Western higher education contexts for collecting students' feedback on their learning patterns (in the form of students' processing strategies, regulation strategies, learning orientations and conceptions of learning), was adapted and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Quality Control, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Elosua, Paula; Iliescu, Dragos – International Journal of Testing, 2012
Psychometric practice does not always converge with the advances of psychometric theory. In order to investigate this gap, the authors focus on the 10 most used psychological tests in Europe, as identified by recent surveys. The article analyzes test manuals published in 6 different European countries for these 10 most used tests. A total of 32…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Personality Measures, Error of Measurement, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Gareth; Smith, Alison; Clarke, Alison – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to report on an in-depth exploration of service quality in an Information Technology service department in a Higher Education Institute (HEI) and to evaluate the instrument used. Design/methodology/approach: The study surveys customers using the SERVQUAL instrument, which is one of the most widely used and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Public Sector, Delivery Systems
Church, Clive – Education Policy Bulletin, 1981
The debate on accountability in terms of the nature and problems of higher education in Great Britain is reviewed. The extent to which validation serves as a means of accountability, and the question of whether the British political system can maintain its role in accountability is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries