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Designing the Framework Conditions for Assuring Academic Standards: Lessons Learned about Professional, Market, and Government Regulation of Academic Quality
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Dill, David D.; Beerkens, Maarja – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
The new demands of mass systems of higher education and the emerging environment of global academic competition are altering the traditional institutions for assuring academic standards in universities. As a consequence many nations are experimenting with new instruments for academic quality assurance. Contemporary government control of academic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Quality Control, Competition
We Can't Go Home Again: Insights from a Quarter Century of Experiments in External Academic Quality Assurance
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Dill, David D. – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
What have we learned from 25 years of experience with external academic quality assurance that can help design more effective framework conditions for assuring academic standards? The key elements appear to be the structure and means of evaluating national academic quality assurance agencies, the nature of academic quality information mandated by…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Academic Standards, Quality Control, Change Strategies
Is There An Academic Audit in Your Future? Reforming Quality Assurance in U.S. Higher Education.
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Dill, David D. – Change, 2000
Describes a new form of academic quality assurance, the academic audit. Reviews use of academic audits abroad and experimental use of such audits in the United States. Identifies issues in academic audits, including focus of audits, auditor selection and training, institutional preparation for an audit, interaction between institutional policies…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Designing Academic Audit: Lessons Learned in Europe and Asia.
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Dill, David D. – Quality in Higher Education, 2000
Reviews lessons learned from early experiments with academic audits in the United Kingdom, Sweden, New Zealand, and Hong Kong in areas such as: focus of audits, selection and training of audit teams, nature of audit self-studies, conduct of audit visits, audit reports, and audit follow-up and enhancement activities. Suggests guidelines for design…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Through Deming's Eyes: A Cross-National Analysis of Quality Assurance Policies in Higher Education.
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Dill, David D. – Quality in Higher Education, 1995
Efforts to improve the quality of academic programs in the United Kingdom, United States, and Netherlands have followed three general approaches: the logic of competitive markets; application of incentives; and professional self-regulation. Strengths and weaknesses of these approaches for improving academic quality are examined through the lens of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Competition, Educational Quality
Accreditation & Academic Quality Assurance: Can We Get There from Here?
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Dill, David D.; And Others – Change, 1996
Despite recent rejection of proposals for national reform of college accreditation, a well-established system of regional, voluntary self-regulation offers the best vehicle for correcting imbalance in educational quality assurance. The new Council for Higher Education Accreditation can help restore public faith in voluntary self-regulation by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Change Strategies, College Role