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The Use of "Ethos Indicators" in Tertiary Education in Japan
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Burden, Peter – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Japanese universities' total capacity to accommodate new entrants will reach 100% before 2009. Partly to attract students as "courted customers" (Kitamura 1997, 147), and, with a growing trend towards university accountability and assessment to meet the needs of homogeneously skilled students with diverse study backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Creating Confusion or Creative Evaluation? The Use of Student Evaluation of Teaching Surveys in Japanese Tertiary Education
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Burden, Peter – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
A new reform movement in Japanese tertiary education has emerged which is more economy centered, more market sensitive, and more influenced by a government shift towards decentralization. With the dramatic decline in the 18 year old population, a buyer's market has led to the introduction of student evaluation of teaching surveys (SETs) partly as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Does the Use of End of Semester Evaluation Forms Represent Teachers' Views of Teaching in a Tertiary Education Context in Japan?
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Burden, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This paper considers both how the mandatory introduction of student evaluation of teaching surveys (SETs) fits into the social and political context of tertiary education in Japan, and the assumptions about teaching underlying SETs. Through interviews with English teachers, a technical-rational perspective whereby teaching is a profession only to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Surveys, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Foreign Countries