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Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
As higher education quality assurance in many countries in Europe has become a mature activity, some agencies carrying out external quality assurance are developing beyond their core tasks and missions. The current study identifies new tasks taken up within quality assurance agencies and analyses the drivers behind such development. Based on an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
McCubbin, Amanda; Hammer, Sara; Ayriss, Peter – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Benchmarking is a formalised evaluation process by which a university can measure the standard of their policies, processes, programmes or strategies through comparison with other universities. Currently, there is a paucity of research that focuses on the documentation associated with external benchmarking undertaken by Australian universities.…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Universities
Gull, Mehwish; Chaudhary, Abid Hussain – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
The present study aimed to evaluate the Diploma of Associate Engineers (DAE) program working under TEVTA by using seven parameters (curriculum, physical facilities, academic facilities, administrative facilities, method of teaching, assessment and evaluation and social factors) in province Punjab. The research design chosen for this study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Engineering Education, Technical Education
Sampaio, Marta; Leite, Carlinda – Improving Schools, 2017
This article presents a study that aimed to understand the contributions of self-evaluation (SE) processes towards the development of curricular and social justice and educational improvement. The study focuses on data collected from the schools' external evaluation (SEE) process and from the TEIP programme (Educational Territories of Priority…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Self Evaluation (Groups), Social Justice, Intervention
Bejan, Andrei-Stelian; Damian, Radu Mircea; Leiber, Theodor; Neuner, Iohan; Niculita, Lidia; Vacareanu, Radu – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. institutional evaluation including programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest in the form of a methodological before-after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality
Demirel, Ergün – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The higher education institutes aspire to gain reputation of quality having accreditation from internationally recognized awarding bodies. The accreditation leads and provides quality assurance for education. Although distance learning becomes a significant part of the education system in the 21st century, there is still a common opinion that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Distance Education, Higher Education
Seema, Riin; Udam, Maiki; Mattisen, Heli; Lauri, Liia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of how the employees of higher education institutions perceive the impact of external evaluations. The study was conducted using the concurrent mixed method and involved 361 employees from Estonian universities and professional higher education institutions. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, School Personnel, Higher Education
Jørgensen, Malene Dahl; Sparre Kristensen, Regitze; Wimpf, Alexandre; Delplace, Stefan – Online Submission, 2014
The report is the project's first outcome, and provides an overview of quality tools, quality models and quality labels, currently in use in (professional) higher education. It is followed by a gap analysis as regards the Standards and Guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG), and the identified characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Education, Models
Cheung, Jordan C. M. – Quality in Higher Education, 2015
This article seeks to spark a dialectic discussion on the establishment of a set of professional competencies for quality assurance practitioners who serve in external quality assurance agencies in higher education. Such a need is identified due to the shortage of relevant and sufficient coverage in the quality assurance literature. To…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Evaluators
Theory, Evaluation, and Practice in Widening Participation: A Framework Approach to Assessing Impact
Hayton, Annette; Bengry-Howell, Andrew – London Review of Education, 2016
The English higher education (HE) system is deeply stratified, with younger students from more privileged backgrounds comprising the majority of the student population. Over the last 15 years considerable investment has been made to widen participation but attempts to evaluate these initiatives and demonstrate impact have presented a major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Higher Education, Access to Education
Hanna Niemelä; Taija Okkola; Annikka Nurkka; Mikko Kuisma; Ritva Tuunila – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present observations of a EUR-ACE accreditation process in a Finnish university. The study demonstrates the effects (benefits, effort and resources required) of accreditation as seen by the university management and teaching staff. Design/methodology/approach: The material of the study was gathered by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Evaluation
Hebib, Emina; Spasenovic, Vera; Šaljic, Zorica – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
In the education system of Serbia significant results have been achieved in the last ten years regarding the establishment and development of the evaluation system in education and the practical application of various types and procedures of evaluation. This paper gives a short overview of ways in which evaluation is carried out on elementary,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Beneitone, Pablo; Yarosh, Maria – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2015
Deusto International Tuning Academy is undertaking a large-scale study to analyse the impact Tuning projects may have had in participating universities. More particularly, the study hopes to provide an unambiguous answer regarding the presence or absence of the implementation of a competence-based student-centred approach in the different world…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Universities
Said, Suhana Mohd; Chow, Chee-Onn; Mokhtar, N.; Ramli, Rahizar; Ya, Tuan Mohd Yusoff Shah Tuan; Sabri, Mohd Faizul Mohd – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
The curriculum for undergraduate engineering courses in Malaysia is becoming increasingly structured, following the global trend for quality assurance in engineering education, through accreditation schemes. Generally, the accreditation criteria call for the graduates from engineering programs to demonstrate a range of skills, from technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Quality Assurance, Accreditation (Institutions)
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Papastylianou, Dona; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
A framework based on research on bullying and on educational effectiveness was offered to schools to assist them in developing strategies and actions to improve their learning environment, their policy for teaching, and their evaluation mechanisms in order to reduce bullying. At the beginning and end of the intervention, the Revised Olweus…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Questionnaires