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Aleksandra Gawel; Marta Giovannetti; Grazia Li Pomi; Magdalena Stefanska; Iwona Olejnik; Barbara Kulaga; Elena Cedrola – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Universities should increasingly collaborate with industries and international counterparts to meet the needs of students, businesses and other stakeholders. However, the literature has not provided a comprehensive response to these aspects of curriculum development. This study has two objectives: to propose a method of curriculum content…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Curriculum, Higher Education, Universities
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Pineda, Pedro; Seidenschnur, Tim – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) has not yet been studied historically and comparatively. Based on our interviews with professors and administrators at 18 universities in three countries, we discuss how SET diffused in all the studied universities and how SET was translated and edited differently according to different sets of statements. SET…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Quality Assurance
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Mukwambo, Patience – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Although several studies have examined how quality teaching and learning is defined and operationalised in the global North, there is a paucity of such studies in developing country contexts. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the research applies Sen's idea of deliberative democracy to a multi-stakeholder evaluation of policy formulation and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Case Studies
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Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo; Luu, Diep H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
The adoption of US accreditation by non-US universities is one of the most salient manifestations of the internationalization of quality assurance in higher education. This process has been conceptualized as an exercise of global position taking by which institutions with limited financial and symbolic resources become associated with more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Implementation
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Aamodt, Per Olaf; Frølich, Nicoline; Stensaker, Bjørn – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
While the establishment of quality assurance has been seen for decades as the most significant instrument to secure and enhance the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, the concept of developing more specific learning outcomes has in recent years attracted much interest, not least due to the creation of national qualification…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, College Faculty
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Rodríguez-Gómez, David; Feixas, Mònica; Gairín, Joaquín; Muñoz, José Luís – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The dropout rate is an indicator of complex analysis and there is no consensus on its significance. Universities lack systematized, univocal methods for collecting student dropout data, making measurement problematic. In consequence, the formulas applied to analyze this phenomenon differ between countries and it is therefore an immense challenge…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality