The role and function of external quality assurance is of great importance for the development of an internal quality culture in higher education. Research has shown that external quality assurance can stimulate but also create obstacles for institutional improvement. To strike a balance between improvement and accountability is, therefore, a key…

This study applies the "Personnel Evaluation Standards" of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation to the procedures, practices, and related components of a school's staff evaluation program to determine the program's effectiveness. Evaluators sought answers to questions including the extent to which the intended structures and…

An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. Given the recent plethora of open educational resources (OER), such as the OCW, the growing use of such resources by the…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the processes that can be and have been adopted by UK business schools as they attempt to meet the Quality Assurance Agency's concern with the standard of quality management and enhancement. Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature provides interpretations of quality,…

Romania is reforming its Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system and introducing a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and a National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) to create a new and comprehensive national quality assurance system for qualifications. These reforms have their origins in the social and economic…

The paper proposes a metric, the research quality index (RQI), for assessing and tracking university research quality. The RQI is a composite index that encompasses the three main areas of research activity: publications, research grants and higher degree by research activity. The public availability of such an index will also facilitate…

Finding ways to assure the quality of e-learning is an important endeavor. This article identifies eight quality assurance strategies in use at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The eight strategies are reviews of instructional design, web development, editing, usability and accessibility, maintainability, copyright, infrastructure impact, and…

Presents tips from a superintendent of buildings and grounds who visited various colleges to see what worked -- and what didn't -- in dormitory windows. (Author)

Article defined the meaning of the CP Seal and how it affects the art materials that children purchase. (RK)

This guide is designed for federal executives and managers who have a responsibility for the planning and management of software projects and for federal staff members who are affected by, or involved in, making software changes, and who need to be aware of steps that can reduce both the difficulty and cost of software maintenance. Organized in a…

The article explains how McDonald's manages to maintain uniform quality and service standards internationally, at all outlets, through their efficient training techniques. (BP)

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS PREPARED TO PROVIDE A SOURCE MANUAL ON TRAINING QUALITY CONTROL. REFERENCES ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE CATEGORIES--(1) GENERAL PAPERS ON PROFICIENCY MEASUREMENT, ACHIEVEMENT TESTING, RATIONALES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES, (2) COMPLETE MANUALS FOR TESTING PROGRAMS OR PERFORMANCE TESTS, (3) STUDIES EVALUATING OR DESCRIBING TEST METHODS,…

As a community service and continuing adult education program, the Graduate School of the U. S. Department of Agriculture sponsors a series of public lectures. This book contains the texts and reactions to one of the lecture series entitled "Environmental Improvement." Given in May, 1966, the series presented "Man and His Environment - Scope,…