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Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Gau, Rebecca – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Even after more than a decade of experience, surprisingly little is understood about the entities responsible for authorizing and overseeing charter schools. In this article, the authors argue that the success of the charter school movement depends on the effectiveness of those authorizers. In order to find out how charter authorizers are doing…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Accountability, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Direct linkStobie, Ingeborg; Boyle, Jim; Woolfson, Lisa; Truswell, Emma; Connaughton, Noreen – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2004
Recent research suggests that multi-strand and interlinked interventions meet the requirements of early primary school intervention programmes more fully than single programmes. A set of quality indicators, which education authorities and schools can utilize to review and evaluate processes and outcomes of such interventions, is derived from the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Lane, Jason E.; Brown, M. Christopher, II; Pearcey, Matt-Allen – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
This chapter highlights some of the issues that need to be addressed when operating international campuses and provides a list of questions to help guide relevant institutional research. (Lists 8 online resources.)
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Institutional Research, Research Problems, Research Needs
Alderman, Geoffrey – College and University, 2005
The globalization of higher education has resulted in a number of British institutions applying for American accreditation. In 2002, the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education admitted its first American member. All these institutions must therefore confront the need to satisfy two very different approaches to the assurance of quality…
Descriptors: Colleges, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality, Higher Education
Coates, Hamish – Quality in Higher Education, 2005
As the principles and practices of quality assurance are further implanted in higher education, methodological questions about how to understand and manage quality become increasingly important. This paper argues that quality assurance determinations need to take account of how and to what extent students engage with activities that are likely to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Blackmur, Douglas – Quality in Higher Education, 2005
The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) withdrew its accreditation of 15 Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees in May 2004. MBAs for which accreditation was withdrawn include those offered in South Africa by Bond University (Australia) and De Montfort University (UK). CHEs decisions have significant implications for students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Policy, Business Administration
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
Watters, 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
Hoecht, Andreas – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic staff that were conducted at two "new university" business schools. Both…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
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
