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Birch, Derek W.; Johnson, F. Craig – 1988
A study was conducted using quality control and quality assurance models to examine student outcomes. The purpose was to investigate current quality control and quality assurance practices in six colleges, to evaluate the relationship between quantitative effectiveness measures and qualitative outcomes measure and to assess the readiness of each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Course Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Duckwall, Julia M.; Johnson, F. Craig – 1982
The communication of research findings among collegiate institutional researchers is considered in relation to the contribution of qualitative language in general, and catastrophe theory in particular. The qualitative language of catastrophe theory may help reduce the arbitrariness of description, through identification of qualitative features…
Descriptors: College Planning, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Finance