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Public Policy for Academic Quality

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 30)

Editors: Dill, David D.; Beerkens, Maarja

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3754-1

ISBN: 978-90-481-3753-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Dec 9, 2009

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Introduction

Dill, David D.; Beerkens, Maarja

Pages: 1 –13

[The impact of globalization and massification has altered radically the traditional relationship between the state and institutions of higher education. As a consequence the leading nations are experimenting with new instruments for academic quality assurance. We have selected fourteen...
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External Examiner System in the UK: Fresh Challenges to an Old System

Lewis, Richard

Pages: 21 –36

[An External Examiner system has been in place in the UK since the nineteenth century. It came to existence in order to provide public assurance that the standards of the new universities were comparable with those of their more ancient counterparts. The two main roles of External Examiners were...
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The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) in the USA

El-Khawas, Elaine

Pages: 37 –54

[The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) was founded in 1997 as an alternative approach to accreditation of teacher education in the United States. It combines an innovative focus on student learning and an evidence-based audit method. Its review process is supported by detailed...
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The CHE University Ranking in Germany

Beerkens, Maarja; Dill, David D.

Pages: 61 –82

[University rankings have become widely influential in the last 10 years, both on a national and international scale. Rankings as a consumer information tool can function as an effective quality assurance mechanism. Most existing university rankings, however, seem to distort rather than improve...
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The US National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

Ewell, Peter T.

Pages: 83 –97

[The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a U.S. survey of first and fourth-year students based on known “best practices” in teaching and learning. The survey was originally developed to generate information on academic program quality in response to the growing influence of annual...
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The Course Experience Questionnaire, Graduate Destination Survey, and Learning and Teaching Performance Fund in Australia

Harris, Kerri-Lee; James, Richard

Pages: 99 –119

[The Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and Graduate Destinations Survey (GDS) are instruments jointly administered as part of an annual national population survey of the graduates of all Australian universities. The survey instruments are designed to measure and quantify some of the important...
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National Report Card on Higher Education in the USA

Breneman, David W.

Pages: 121 –131

[The policy instrument described in this analysis is a biennial series of reports, Measuring Up, prepared by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, a non-profit, non-partisan organization located in San Jose, California. These reports focus on the fifty states within the...
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The Australian Qualifications Framework

McInnis, Craig

Pages: 141 –155

[The major objective of the Australian Qualifications Framework is to provide a coherent national framework to embrace the diverse range of vocational and academic qualifications across the three sectors concerned with post-compulsory education: schools, vocational and training, and higher...
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Subject Benchmarking in the UK

Williams, Gareth

Pages: 157 –181

[Subject benchmarking was part of an agglomeration of quality assurance measures that emerged in United Kingdom higher education during the 1990s in large part as a reaction to the precipitous transition from “elite” to “mass” higher education in the early years of the decade. Rapid growth of...
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Subject Assessments for Academic Quality in Denmark

Stensaker, Bjørn

Pages: 183 –202

[With a dual purpose related to accountability and improvement, Denmark has had a system of external quality monitoring since 1992. Organised through an independent agency (EVA), systematic evaluation of study programs has been the dominant method for quality assurance for a number of years. By...

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