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Emmanuelle, Guernon – Online Submission, 2023
This paper presents a comprehensive review of existing literature concerning the domains of accreditation and quality assurance in various sectors. Accreditation and quality assurance play vital roles in ensuring the credibility, transparency, and effectiveness of educational institutions, healthcare facilities, industries, and other domains. This…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Accountability
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Marwan Al-Raeei; Chadi Azmeh – SAGE Open, 2024
The release of scientific research has substantial consequences for both the research and the institution in which it was carried out. The selection of publishing methods for scientific articles, such as journal type, quartile, indexed databases, and publishing models, plays a crucial role. Various publishing models exist, including platinum,…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, College Outcomes Assessment, Influence of Technology, Access to Information
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Furtuna, Daniela – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The author describes the steps taken by a research team, of which she was part, to develop a specific methodology for assessing student attainment in primary school, working with the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems (PASEC) of the Conference of Ministers of Education of French-speaking Countries (CONFEMEN). This methodology provides…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Test Items, Test Construction, African Studies
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Wolhuter, C. C.; Kangumu, B.; Mungongi, F. – Higher Education Forum, 2014
The aim of this article is to examine and assess Africa's higher education effort. The theoretical framework employed distinguishes between three dimensions of the higher education project: the quantitative dimension (measured in terms of higher education enrollments and enrollment ratios), the qualitative dimension, and the equality dimension.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Enrollment Trends
Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, Justin – Brookings Institution, 2013
Existing studies from the United States, Latin America and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya--a poor country with weak public institutions--we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Effect Size, School Effectiveness
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Baporikar, Neeta, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region becomes increasingly intertwined in the global economy, investment continues to be made in the educational sector. Multidimensional approaches to higher education have greatly influenced the state of business and government in the region. The "Handbook of Research on Higher Education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Developing Nations, Educational Research
Martin, Michael O.; Mullis, Ina V. S.; Foy, Pierre; Stanco, Gabrielle M. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies of educational achievement in a number of curriculum areas, including mathematics and science. TIMSS 2011 represents the fifth cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis