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Maali Mohammed Alnusairi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Quality assurance (QA) studies have introduced different strategies and standards established to help higher education institutions (HEIs) meet their goals. However, in Saudi Arabia, insufficient data on the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) and its practices regarding establishing quality standards after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
Keith Daniel Humfeld – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Customers in the higher education industry in the U.S. are unable to make value decisions about their educational purchases due to a lack of quality measures that enable comparisons of institutions' academic offerings. In an environment in which all student work is posted online, it would be possible to evaluate bodies of student work to enable…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Accreditation (Institutions)
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
Alharbi, Eman – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Institutional accreditation in the last decades has been studies as an important assessment that ensures the quality of higher education institutions. The growth of the economy around the world has placed value on evaluating universities' accountability and effectiveness. Therefore, one of the most significant current discussions in higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Accreditation (Institutions), Governance
Murphy, William P. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Quality assurance of academic programs that lead to licensure or certification in a profession traditionally has been through the industry-recognized accreditation body. There have been a limited number of studies on whether accreditation is associated with better program quality and outcomes; the purpose of this study was to add to that body of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality
Villanueva, Neulin Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative research study used a collective case study design to explore quality assurance practices and perceptions within Belize's higher education institutions. Despite the passage of the National Accreditation Council of Belize Act (NACB Act) in 2004, the Council was never established and there remains, to date, no formal external…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation
Bose, Eric V. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study sought to examine and extend the existing knowledge of IBSTPI competencies of instructional design (International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction, 2000), the instructional rubric standard expectations of Quality Matters (2010), the identified categories of online learning affordances (Kirschner, Strijbos,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Standards, Scoring Rubrics, Educational Quality