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Peer reviewedCohen-Vogel, Lora – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
Explores the consequences of integrated choice/accountability policies for school organization and governance, examining the constitutional context of school authority, identifying historical trends in the exercise of authority by various stakeholders, presenting a model for understanding governance today, describing school choice and performance…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCrowson, Robert L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
Examines turbulence in U.S. education, explaining how today's changing educational policy environment causes new frustrations. Suggests that federal, state, local, and site- level are current sources of indecision and struggle that have implications for today's choice of direction concerning inquiry and leadership for public education. Discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedTimar, Thomas B. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
Examines California's Public School Accountability Act within the K-12 policy and political context, asserting that the new accountability imposes a new regulatory scheme on California's schools that adds to the "regulatory baggage" schools already carry. Suggestes that simply adding one more layer of regulation without reassessing the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkWatters, Kate – Adults Learning, 2005
Networking has helped local education authority (LEA) providers of adult and community learning (ACL) get to grips with the current inspection regime. David Sherlock, Chief Inspector of the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), observed, as he launched his third annual report, that their willingness to work together in the face of initially…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Young Adults, Inspection
Ceglowski, Deborah – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2004
This paper presents definitions of child care quality from focus groups conducted to develop a research design to assess the quality of Minnesota's regulated child care system. Eleven individual interviews and 38 focus groups involving 333 people were held in communities throughout Minnesota between 1-11-00 and 6-14-00. The focus groups…
Descriptors: Research Design, Definitions, Focus Groups, Child Care
Altbach, Philip G. – College and University, 2004
Doctoral education in the United States forms a huge and diverse enterprise. Seen from the outside, American graduate education is often hailed as the "gold standard" to which other nations and academic institutions aspire. From the inside, however, doctoral education faces many challenges. This article provides some basic information…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study, Outcomes of Education, Doctoral Degrees
McKnight, Roberta – International Journal on E-Learning, 2004
According to several surveys over the past six years, faculty support and training in information technology remains one of the most pressing issues in higher education (Greene, 2001; Gandel, et al., 2000; Lembke, et al., 2001; Kobulnicky, et al., 2002). In an effort to address this issue, various organizations have published guidelines or…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Information Technology, Distance Education, Higher Education
Walsh, Patricia Noonan; Linehan, Christine; Kerr, M. P.; van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, H. M. J.; Buono, Serafino; Azema, Bernard; Aussilloux, Charles; Maatta, Tuomo; Salvador-Carulla, Luis; Garrido-Cumbrera, Marco; van Hove, Geert; Bjorkman, Monica; Ceccotto, Raymond; Kamper, Marion; Weber, Germain; Heiss, Cecilia; Haveman, Meindert; Jorgensen, Frank Ulmer; O'Farrell, Lisa – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2005
The European Commission's Health Monitoring Programme culminated in the development of a set of European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) for the general population. Despite evidence of marked disparities between the health of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their peers in the general population, the ECHI contain no significant…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Standards
Perellon, Juan F. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
National policy agendas for quality assurance in higher education (HE) are increasingly influenced by supra-national trends and decisions. Taking Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands as examples, the paper analyses how supranational trends are re-interpreted at the national level and how recently formulated national policies combine the demands…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
D'Andrea, Vaneeta; Blackwell, Richard; Gosling, David – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
There has been a substantial and potentially significant shift in the UK approach to quality in higher education in the last few years. In England, Wales and Scotland there has been a growing interest in quality enhancement to supplement existing frameworks for quality assurance. In the words of the Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Trend Analysis, Quality Control
Hendel, Darwin D.; Lewis, Darrell R. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
One issue facing countries in transition concerns how to ensure quality for a broader and more diverse set of institutions. Quality assurance processes (i.e. accreditation, accountability and assessment) have particular relevance today as higher education undergoes dramatic changes in countries in transition, as the world becomes more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Quality Control, Accountability
Kivisto, Jussi – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
This article introduces the agency theory to the field of higher education research. By applying agency theory to the inter-organisational relationship between government and higher education institutions, it is possible to illustrate general problems facing control and governance in a more theoretical and analytical way. The conceptual arsenal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Government School Relationship, Educational Research
Quigley, Richard – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2003
For more than 50 years, adolescent peer group treatment has been both glorified and criticized. Quality control has been a problem for the Positive Peer Culture (PPC) treatment modality throughout its history. The following article includes observations and commentary on the history, strength-based elements, and criticism of PPC.
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Groups, Peer Influence, Clinics
Jones, Sandra – Quality in Higher Education, 2003
There are a several lenses through which quality in higher education can be viewed. One views quality improvement at the macro or university level, another focuses at the micro or educational-delivery level. One sees quality assessment as an administrative "check-off", the other sees quality as a continuous improvement in educational delivery. One…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Quality Control
Temple, Paul; Billing, David – Quality in Higher Education, 2003
This paper considers the development of intermediary, or buffer, bodies dealing with quality assurance in higher education in Central and Eastern Europe over the past 10 years. It relates these developments to the context of communist-era centralisation and control, and to more recent interventions by international aid agencies. The lessons that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control
