Current directions in institutional evaluation, guidelines for evaluating institutions, types of evaluation, and some problems in assessing institutional quality are discussed. (MSE)

Aspects of evaluation in higher education are reviewed, including its role, the range of approaches, components, techniques, mechanisms and institutions for evaluation, impacts, evaluation by students, evaluation of research quality, and levels of evaluation (system, institution, faculty). (MSE)

Evaluators of basic units in higher education should be explicit about the motives, object, organization, criteria, methods, dissemination, and impacts of evaluation efforts to avoid being counterproductive. (Author/MSE)

The chemistry and chemical engineering department's experiences with an institution-wide research evaluation process is discussed, focusing on the departmental input into the process, the estimation of research activity and productivity, and the evaluation of the research's relevance to teaching, international research, and society. (MSE)

Risks inherent in using the value-added model to assess institutional effectiveness are discussed, including instructional bias favoring test content, overemphasis on test results, differential interpretations of results, and ethical issues related to the use of student records. (MSE)

Aspects of the system of institutional evaluation in American higher education are described and examined, including the state role, voluntary peer instiutional accreditation, institutional self-evaluation, trends, theoretical and policy considerations, and the possible applications of the U.S. system in other settings. (MSE)

Recent changes in American faculty evaluation include increased use, a broader database, emergence of evaluation systems, improved instruments, and impact of court litigation on improvement of evaluation. Anticipated changes relate to improved systems, greater rigor, computer use, increased flexibility and individualization, and increased…

Northeast Missouri State University's Value-Added Student Assessment grew from the idea that an institution should be able to determine the value added to a person as he or she proceeds through the educational system, as measured by student output performances. This provides accountability to the students, faculty, staff, and external…

Government's role differs according to whether it restricts itself to creating a structural framework within which institutional performance evaluation takes place or takes the evaluative task on itself. Process-directed and output-directed evaluation are compared, with examples given from the Netherlands. (Author/MSE)

Questions and issues related to the assessment of performance in institutions of higher education and the development of performance indicators are addressed. Topics include: institutional objectives, planning and control systems, non-profit performance evaluation techniques, multi-dimensional analysis, and performance indicators. (JMD)

The Free University of Amsterdam's system of internal institutional evaluation uses specific achievement measures at various levels in each field of study to assess student progress and evaluate program effectiveness. (MSE)

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has successfully integrated a program for assessing student outcomes in the ongoing institutional processes of peer review, strategic planning, and internal resource allocation. Students are tested in general education and their major fields and participate in curriculum and instructional evaluations.…