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Pagawan Kaewpho; Suwat Julsuwan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This study aimed to identify, develop, and validate components and indicators of academic management models in the digital era for improving academic achievement in secondary schools under Thailand's Office of the Basic Education Commission. A mixed-method approach was employed, encompassing comprehensive literature review, qualitative content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Models, Academic Achievement
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Dahlberg, Gunilla – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article analyses the discourse and practices of quality assurance and quality control through the lens of neo-liberal governing as expressed in economic rationalities such as new public management, total quality management, public choice and human capital. As an alternative to this form of governing, an ethico-aesthetic paradigm is enacted,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism
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Basar, Gulsun; Altinay, Zehra; Dagli, Gokmen; Altinay, Fahriye – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
This study involves the assessment of the quality management models in Higher Education by explaining the importance of quality in higher education and by examining the higher education quality assurance system practices in other countries. The qualitative study was carried out with the members of the Higher Education Planning, Evaluation,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Models
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support the validity of the model. Thus, the importance of using the dynamic model to establish an evidence-based and theory-driven…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Educational Improvement
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Van Kemenade, Everard; Pupius, Mike; Hardjono, Teun W. – Quality in Higher Education, 2008
There are lots of definitions of quality, and also of quality in education. Garvin (1984) discerns five approaches: the transcendental approach, the product-oriented approach, the customer-oriented approach, the manufacturing-oriented approach and the value-for-money approach. Harvey and Green (1993) give five interrelated concepts of quality as:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Values, Quality Control
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Temple, Paul – Higher Education Quarterly, 2005
Robert Birnbaum argues that higher education tends to adopt management fads -- newly conceived techniques enjoying brief popularity but which fail to live up to their promoters claims at the point when the corporate sector and government are discarding them. Although fads may have failed in these sectors because of various reasons, their failure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Educational Administration, Models
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Harper, Harriet – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
A research project examined what form of organizational structures have been adopted within British further-education colleges 5 years after their incorporation and removal from local-education authority control. Colleges are representing their structures as market models (alongside a clan culture), rather than Weberian bureaucracies. (Contains 29…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Colleges
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Bender, Kim K.; Siller, T. J. – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
Colleges and universities interact with multiple constituents or quality monitoring groups that require programme-level assessment of student learning. These required assessments might be used to demonstrate accountability, programme improvement or a combination of both. These demands often challenge instructional faculty to choose between the…
Descriptors: Integrity, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Hillesheim, Gwen – 1998
This paper explores the issues surrounding quality in higher education and its necessary adaptation to the online world of educational delivery. A historical perspective on quality standards is presented, and characteristics of recent models for quality control are outlined. Quality-related issues in Walden University's (Minnesota) two new online,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation, Distance Education, Educational Administration
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 1999
This white paper outlines a proposed framework for post-16 learning in England. Chapter 1 discusses the principles underpinning the new policy, which are as follows: investing in learning to benefit everyone; lifting barriers to learning; putting people first; sharing responsibility with employers, employees, and the community; achieving world…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Change Strategies
Alto, Romulita; Isaacs, Irene; Knight, Brian; Polestico, Rebecca – 2000
This book provides an overview of vocational-technical education and training (VTET) in the 10 member countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SAMEO). The book begins with an introduction explaining the objectives and methodology of the cooperative research project on which the study was based. Each of the 10…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies