Evidence-based policy and higher education quality assurance: progress, pitfalls and promise

M Beerkens - Impact Evaluation of Quality Management in Higher …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Evidence-based policy has become a norm in the current policy-making rhetoric, affecting
also higher education quality assurance. This article agrees with critics that rigorous ex-post …

Fifteen Years of Quality in Higher Education (Part Two)

L Harvey, J Williams - 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This is the second part of the review of the papers published in Quality in Higher Education
from its inception in 1995 to the present day. This part of the review focuses on internal …

Governing and managing higher education institutions: The quality audit contributions

C Kooli - Evaluation and program planning, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper aims to evaluate the role and effects of national accreditation practices in the
improvement and development of the Omani private higher educational institutions in term of …

Academics' perceptions of the impact of internal quality assurance on teaching and learning

O Tavares, C Sin, P Videira… - Assessment & Evaluation …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Internal quality assurance systems are expected to improve the institutions' core mission of
teaching and learning. Using data gathered through an online survey, distributed in …

Higher education accreditation, quality assurance and their impact to teaching and learning enhancement

SA Makhoul - Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to study the relationship between higher education accreditation
and teaching and learning enhancements in academic institutions. Higher education …

Critical factors in the use of evaluation in Italian universities

G Rebora, M Turri - Higher education, 2011 - Springer
The use made of evaluation output is crucial for understanding the position and
effectiveness of evaluation systems. This article examines the development of evaluation in …

Lessons learned from two decades of Quality in Higher Education

L Harvey - Research handbook on quality, performance and …, 2018 - elgaronline.com
Quality in Higher Education was established in the early years of the quality revolution and
has published 529 articles in the 21 annual volumes up to and including 2015. The journal …

Teacher self-assessment as a part of quality management

H Alena, L Danka, N Henryk - Science for Education Today, 2019 - cyberleninka.ru
Introduction. Self-reflection is an essential precondition to improve and enhance teachers
performance. It should be included in evaluation processes of teachers conducted by …

Evaluation and quality assurance in Finnish and Italian universities in the Bologna process

J Ursin, M Huusko, H Aittola, U Kiviniemi… - Quality in Higher …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of the study is to describe the evaluation and quality assurance practices
employed in the basic units of Finnish and Italian universities and analyse the impact of the …

Higher education quality assessment and university change: A theoretical approach

S Liu, S Liu - Quality Assurance and Institutional Transformation: The …, 2016 - Springer
This chapter is devoted to finding theoretical approaches to understand how quality
assessment causes transformation of higher education institutions. Firstly, studies on quality …