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Miller, Mary Genusa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The researcher sought to describe the culture of assessment for post-secondary program improvement that had resulted from the new requirements for reaffirmation through regional accreditation. The literature was deficient in a conceptual framework and surveys to measure a culture of assessment. The researcher developed a conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Universities, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Assessment, Organizational Culture
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Undie, John Atewhoble; Okafor, Victor – African Higher Education Review, 2014
In fundamental economics, individuals acquired education for two broad reasons, as an investment and as consumption. The investment function of education has continued to create tension for job search leading to cases of unemployment. Entrepreneurship education and establishment of mega universities have been identified as panaceas. This paper…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Entrepreneurship, Access to Education, Universities
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Ding, Chuanfu; Jalbert, Terrance; Landry, Steven P. – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2007
This paper examines the relationship between university ranks and outcome measurements. Many students select the university that they will attend based on these rankings In this paper the rankings conducted by two studies are examined. U.S. News and World Report rankings are based upon measures of the quality of input, retention while in school…
Descriptors: Reputation, Correlation, Universities, Periodicals
Kubursi, A. A. – 1994
This study gauges the secondary impacts of Ontario, Canada's higher education system, in an attempt to define the boundary of production that encloses the economic activities involved in sustaining the demands put on the system by normal university activities. The accounting framework, upon which the impact model is based, is Statistics Canada…
Descriptors: Colleges, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment, Educational Economics