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Direct linkMurray, Frank B. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2009
Because there is more doubt than ever before about the accomplishments of today's college graduates, the public, employers, often the graduates themselves, and others seek assurance that a program's graduates are competent and qualified. There is now the expectation that accreditation will give them that assurance. Moreover, nearly everyone seeks…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accountability, College Programs, Program Improvement
Petrie, Hugh G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1982
The rupture between evaluation and action is seen as a failure to take a systems view of the situation. Both the organization and the proposed evaluation program must be understood as interactive systems, which mesh with, rather than oppose, each other if they are appropriately designed and implemented. (MLW)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Holland, Barbara A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Describes a comprehensive assessment model as a method for capturing the different perceptions of and impacts on each constituency participating in service-learning projects, and for promoting ongoing improvement of service-learning programs and the partner relationships that sustain them. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Models, Partnerships in Education
Banta, Trudy W.; Moffett, Marian S. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1987
All postsecondary institutions in Tennessee have the opportunity to earn an annual budget supplement for instruction from the state if certain criteria, based on educational outcomes, are obtained. A comprehensive assessment program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Evaluation Criteria
Moomaw, W. Edward – New Directions for Higher Education, 1977
A survey and case studies of southern institutions show a great diversity in approaches to instructional evaluation and considerable unevenness in both the effectiveness of the systems in achieving their purposes and in the validity of some of the practices used. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
Gaff, Jerry G.; Justice, David O. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1978
Professional development programs for faculty have been tested and have been proven to work. They are shown to represent an important new human technology for achieving educational improvement, personal growth, and institutional renewal. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development
Gaff, Jerry G.; Morstain, Barry R. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1978
Findings from the Project on Institutional Renewal through the Improvement of Teaching (PIRIT) support those from other studies showing that faculty development programs can benefit both their participants and the overall campus climate. Data were gathered from a survey of faculty at 14 of the PIRIT institutions. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development
