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Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun, Ed.; Ryan, Yoni, Ed. – 1994
This collection of papers discusses issues of quality, institutional research culture, and processes which encourage, achieve, sustain, and assure high quality teaching and research in universities, primarily from a British and Australian perspective. Part 1 is titled "Issues of Quality and Institutional Research Culture" and contains…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Quality, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Jordan, Thomas E. – 1989
This book approaches the theory and practice of assessment with an overview of the condition of American higher education, addressing its scope, objectives, and diversity. From that base, the book explores the challenges which society poses to campuses in terms of justification of expenditures and demonstration of tangible outcomes. It discusses…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Quality
Nichols, James O. – 1995
This guide is intended for use by college or university administrators or departmental chairs responsible for implementation of educational outcomes assessment and institutional effectiveness evaluation processes. An introductory chapter explains the guide's purpose, defines key terms in assessment terminology, and explains the institutional…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Curriculum Based Assessment, Departments
Nichols, James O. – 1995
This guide is intended for college and university administrators responsible for designing and implementing a model for assessment of student outcomes and institutional effectiveness. The first chapter explains use of the handbook and introduces the institutional effectiveness paradigm on which it is based. The second chapter explains the model…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, College Outcomes Assessment, Curriculum Based Assessment
Key Resources on Higher Education Governance, Management, and Leadership. A Guide to the Literature.
Peterson, Marvin W., Ed.; Mets, Lisa A., Ed. – 1987
Designed as a reference for both practitioners and scholars, this book describes the general development of governance, management, and leadership in higher education, and also outlines the evolution of particular issues, concepts, and literature within each of these three areas. Each bibliographic entry is numbered to provide cross-references to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Affirmative Action, Annotated Bibliographies
Download full textGreen, Diana, Ed. – 1994
This book reflects some of the debate following publication of the 1991 Further and Higher Education Bill, and it also draws on preliminary findings of a national research project funded by a partnership of government, business, and higher education that was designed to develop and test quality assessment methods. Chapters are organized in three…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Competition, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
