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Berry O'Donovan; Ian Sadler; Nicola Reimann – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
A key responsibility of higher education providers is the accurate certification of the knowledge and skills attained by their students. However, despite an intense focus on developing relevant quality assurance regulations, academic standards in higher education have remained resistant to explication and consistent application. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Higher Education, Codification, Barriers
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Sadler, D. Royce – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Internationally, attempts at developing explicit descriptions of academic achievement standards have been steadily intensifying. The aim has been to capture the essence of the standards in words, symbols or diagrams (collectively referred to as codifications) so that standards can be: set and maintained at appropriate levels; made broadly…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, National Standards
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Guzman, Gustavo; Trivelato, Luiz F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The progressive deployment of market-oriented regulatory frameworks in mass Higher Education Institutions (MHEI hereafter) triggered, in a wide variety of forms and degrees, the application of Knowledge Management principles in MHEI. This means the application of the knowledge "codification strategy", where the focus is on the economies of the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Codification, Colleges
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Barrett, Matthew E.; Swan, Alexander B.; Mamikonian, Ani; Ghajoyan, Inna; Kramarova, Olga; Youmans, Robert J. – International Journal of Instruction, 2014
This study examined the encoding specificity principle in relation to traditional and computer-based note taking and assessment formats in higher education. Students (N = 79) took lecture notes either by hand (n = 40) or by computer (n = 39) and then completed either a computer or a paper-based assessment. When note taking and assessment formats…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Congruence (Psychology), Higher Education, College Students
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Johnson, Ane Turner; Janosik, Steven M. – College and University, 2008
Public concerns regarding illegal immigration are currently polarizing the United States. Regardless of one's position, the children of illegal (also referred to as undocumented) immigrants are in a particularly vulnerable situation. While undocumented children are allowed free public primary and secondary education, their path to skills…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Undocumented Immigrants, Access to Education