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Nicholas, Mark C. – Assessment Update, 2023
In this article, the author reflects upon the changes assessment professionals have faced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Against the background of stressed faculty and staff and falling student enrollment, lower retention, and graduation rates, assessment professional must consider how to talk about the "quality" of student learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Paula M. Kinney – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Poor retention and completion outcomes cast doubts about the ability of higher education to provide a return on the money, time, and resource investment. Accountability for the quality of higher education has been an increasingly significant national issue in higher education over the past decade. As pressures for accountability increase, so does…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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John Guenther; Robyn Ober; Rhonda Oliver; Catherine Holmes – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2024
Over recent years there has been a strong emphasis on year 12 completion as an indicator of success in remote First Nations education. The research reported in this article explores what students, school staff and community members say leads to secondary school retention and, ultimately, completion. The research was conducted in the Northern…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Indigenous Populations, Distance Education, Grade 11
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2022
W.S. 21-18-202 (h)(iii) mandates that the Wyoming Community College Commission (WCCC) develop performance benchmarks, outcome measures and other performance indicators which serve as the basis for annual reporting to the Wyoming Legislature and the Governor. The annual reporting must include, but is not limited to, the following measures: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Benchmarking
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Favero, Nathan; Rutherford, Amanda – Research in Higher Education, 2020
This study considers whether performance funding policies systematically tend to harm some types of institutions of higher education while helping others. Building on theories of deck stacking and institutional stratification, a formal theoretical model of the effects of performance funding policies on individual institutions is developed and…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Higher Education, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
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Dowell, David A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
In 2014, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) received the national award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) for Excellence and Innovation in Student Success and Completion, recognizing record high graduation rates with a diverse student population, significantly above comparable institutions.…
Descriptors: State Universities, Graduation Rate, Educational Quality, School Holding Power
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Easley, Jennifer; Strawderman, Lesley; Babski-Reeves, Kari; Bullington, Stanley; Smith, Brian – Quality in Higher Education, 2021
What does it mean to be 'excellent', particularly for the higher education institution? Without a definitive answer to that question, university rankings have become a proxy for quality and excellence. As such, higher education institutions are continually seeking ways to improve their rankings, with the implication being that these rankings…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Administrator Attitudes, Graduation Rate
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Campbell, Rebecca; Blankenship, Benjamin B. – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Colleges and universities have a commitment to improve the student experience, increase persistence, and provide paths to degree completion. Course redesign, focused on student success, is a promising strategy for realizing that commitment. This article examines some of the particulars when course redesign is explicitly linked to student success.…
Descriptors: Courses, Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
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Gyurko, Jonathan; Snow, Meghan – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
Recent events demonstrate the need for better pedagogical preparation, particularly for online instruction. There has been a sudden burst of professional development nationwide in light of the glaring need. But across higher education more broadly, questions still persist: Isn't teaching more art than science? Will faculty learn about and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2017
In September 2016, following the release of 2015 student data by the Department of Education and Training (the department), media reports suggested that high attrition rates are symptomatic of poor admission standards; the lower a student's Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) the greater the risk of non-completion; and as a result of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attrition, Higher Education, College Students
Falkenstern, Colleen; Rochat, Angie – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2021
This edition of "WICHE Insights" explores federal U.S. Department of Education Title III funding, which is used to enhance institutional capacity and educational opportunities for American Indian/Alaska Native and low-income students through the lens of the legislation's permissible activities, key themes across all projects; and dollars…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Low Income Students, Federal Aid
Blalock, James Gaddis, III – ProQuest LLC, 2018
To address the issues of affordability and student persistence through graduation, some institutions of higher education have embraced the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) program. The fact that several of these institutions have subsequently shown improvements in affordability and student retention suggests that other colleges and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Quality, Awards, Educational Improvement
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2012
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Building a Grad Nation": New Report Finds More than Half of States Increased High School Graduation Rate, Number of "Dropout…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Job Satisfaction, Graduation, Public Education
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2017
This Accountability Report shows the status and progression of Florida State University (FSU) from one year to the next. The Executive Summary is divided into the following sections: (1) Dashboard; (2) Performance Funding Metrics; (3) Key Achievements; and (4) Narrative. Data tables on FSU's financial resources, personnel, enrollment,…
Descriptors: State Universities, Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees
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Brown, Karin – Thought & Action, 2015
While higher education has typically included exposure to the values and ethos of the liberal arts, traditional liberal arts education has been in retreat and under threat for a while now. What role has the assessment movement had on this retreat? Is assessment, in fact, part of the deterioration of higher education? Assessment in academia began…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Role
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