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Author: Richard Shavelson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0804761205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines current practices in assessment of learning and accountability at a time when accrediting boards, the federal government and state legislatures are requiring higher education to account for such outcomes as student retention, graduation, and learning.
Author: Robert Kelchen
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1421424738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, the author reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical development of how US federal and state policies, accreditation practices, private-sector interests, and internal requirements have become so important to institutional success and survival
Author: Bjorn Stensaker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1136932364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public about higher education performance and to help transform universities and colleges and improve their functioning. This edited collection provides a comparative analysis of the promises, perils and paradoxes of accountability, and the potential effect on power structures and higher education autonomy, trust and the legitimacy of the sector. Part I describes how accountability is perceived and understood in different regions of the world, identifies some of the most common elements in established accountability initiatives, especially related to quality assurance, and provides direction for possible future development. Part II focuses on responses to new demands for accountability at institutional, national and international levels, and provides practical guidance for handling accountability going forward, emphasizing the dynamic relationship between international development, government strategies and organizational change. This volume is a must-have resource for HE managers, administrators, policy makers, researchers, HE graduate students and those interested or involved with HE accountability practices.
Author: Priscilla Toka Mmantsetsa Marope
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9230011568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe growing impact of university rankings on public policy and on students choices has stirred controversy worldwide. This unique volume brings together the architects of university rankings and their critics to debate the uses and misuses of existing rankings. With voices from five continents, it provides a comprehensive overview of current thinking on the subject and sets out alternative approaches and complementary tools for a new era of transparent and informed use of higher education ranking tables.
Author: Walter W. McMahon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2009-03-18
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0801896789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chronic underinvestment in higher education has serious ramifications for both individuals and society. Winner, Best Book in Education, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers Winner, Best Book in Education, PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers A college education has long been acknowledged as essential for both personal success and economic growth. But the measurable value of its nonmonetary benefits has until now been poorly understood. In Higher Learning, Greater Good, leading education economist Walter W. McMahon carefully describes these benefits and suggests that higher education accrues significant social and private benefits. McMahon's research uncovers a major skill deficit and college premium in the United States and other OECD countries due to technical change and globalization, which, according to a new preface to the 2017 edition, continues unabated. A college degree brings better job opportunities, higher earnings, and even improved health and longevity. Higher education also promotes democracy and sustainable growth and contributes to reduced crime and lower state welfare and prison costs. These social benefits are substantial in relation to the costs of a college education. Offering a human capital perspective on these and other higher education policy issues, McMahon suggests that poor understanding of the value of nonmarket benefits leads to private underinvestment. He offers policy options that can enable state and federal governments to increase investment in higher education.
Author: John Brennan
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781853024238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study addresses debates on academic standards and quality assurance from the perspectives of institutional leaders, national quality bodies and higher education researchers. It includes the results of studies of the impact of external quality assurance upon management and decision making.
Author: Martin Cave
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781853023453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the use of performance indicators of teaching, of reseach and of administration, and offers suggestions on how they might be developed and used.
Author: Gerald H. Gaither
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur M. Cohen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007-08-17
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0787998265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCohen organizes the book around a unique matrix of trends, topics, and eras that enables the reader either to proceed chapter by chapter through a chronological sequence of the entire history, or to easily follow a preferred topic, such as faculty or curriculum, by reading only that specific section in each era.
Author: Mantz Yorke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-09-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134161468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book appraises the way in which summative assessment in higher education is approached, and shows that the foundations of current practices (in the UK and elsewhere) are of questionable robustness.
