Learning Standards And The Assessment Of Quality In Higher Education Contested Policy Trajectories

Author : Jon Yorke,Lesley Vidovich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319329246

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Learning Standards and the Assessment of Quality in Higher Education: Contested Policy Trajectories by Jon Yorke,Lesley Vidovich Pdf

This book analyses accountability and quality policies relating to learning standards and examines their implications for assessment in higher education. Whilst primarily focusing on the Australian setting, this analysis is located within a broader frame of reference that includes the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (US), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Across these settings, comparative measures of learning have been seen as a policy ‘solution’ to the problem of ‘proving quality’ in a globalised and increasingly competitive higher education market. Comparative measures of learning depend on the specification of learning standards. Learning standards attempt to articulate the capabilities expected of graduates, and students’ achievement of these is determined through the practices of assessment carried out within institutions. Quality policy, learning standards and assessment practices all intersect within the broader umbrella of accountability, with relevance to governments, higher education providers, employers, parents, and students. The findings reported in this book highlight a number of policy influences, including the rising demands for national and international comparative data on learning standards to compare quality and inform student choice in a globally competitive market.

Author : Peter Neema-Abooki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000637007

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Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa by Peter Neema-Abooki Pdf

This book explores quality assessment and enhancement in higher education in Africa to illustrate the need to develop quality practices in measuring effective education and continually search for permanent improvement. The book demonstrates that technological and socio-economic trends, innovations, and inventions of the twenty-first century demand that additional attention be placed upon education for national, regional, and international development. Since conventions for quality assessment and enhancement need to be defined and systematic structures constructed to develop quality practices, the book shows how quality in higher education within Africa has been established and advanced to provide a framework for monitoring, auditing, and reviewing assessment and enhancement. Though the book considers African complexities and diversity, it incorporates global trends and utilises an international focus that enables readers to devise appropriate strategies for developing and enhancing quality and standards in higher education in both continental Africa and beyond. Illustrating why quality assessment and enhancement should be embraced in all aspects including inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes in educational settings globally, this book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of Higher Education, Quality and Global Studies, African Education, African Studies and Management and Administration, Leadership and Professional Development Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780850140248

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Quality Control and Quality Assurance by Anonim Pdf

In any engineering field (including manufacturing, construction, transportation, aerospace, food and agriculture, oil and gas, etc.), ensuring product quality is fundamental to achieving success. Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are integral components of managing quality. According to the American Society for Quality (ASQ), QA is defined as the part of quality management that focuses on instilling confidence in meeting quality requirements, while QC is concerned with fulfilling those requirements. QA instills confidence internally within the engineering organization’s management and externally with customers, government agencies, regulators, certifiers, and other stakeholders. QA primarily examines how processes are carried out or how products are made, while QC concentrates on product inspection. When QA and QC collaborate effectively, organizational efficiency is enhanced, resulting in superior products. Quality Control and Quality Assurance - Techniques and Applications explores various aspects of quality, including quality planning, QC, QA, and quality enhancement. It covers topics related to QA such as total quality management (TQM), failure testing, process and product quality assurance (PPQA), and statistical process control (SPC). QC includes chapters describing process control, control charts, acceptance sampling, and product quality assessment. For meaningful and easy traceability, the chapters are divided into four sections: “Basics of QA/QC”; “Applications of QA/QC in Industry”; “Applications of QA/QC in Healthcare”; and “Applications of QA/QC in Education”. Covering the latest practices, techniques, and applications in QC and QA, this book is a valuable resource for engineering and business students, practicing engineers, engineering managers, and third-party agencies.

Author : Hamish Coates
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811592164

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Higher Education Design by Hamish Coates Pdf

This book advances new views on higher education design, steps beyond prevailing problems and perspectives, and stimulates broader contributions. The 2020 pandemic has shocked already fragile business and academic models, and the time is ripe for innovating global online education, shifting towards Asia and lifelong learning, and investing in 21st century institutions and partnerships. Rather than dwell on dystopian discontents, the book charts narratives for developing the industry and the field. It is written for commercial, governmental and collegial communities to inject major research-driven insights into contemporary transformations and research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004436558

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Responsibility of Higher Education Systems by Anonim Pdf

This book contributes to the understanding of the responsibilities of Higher Education in the evolving societal, political and economic landscape. It raises questions about its role in society, its responsibility towards students and staff, and its intended impact.

Author : David Andrew Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916847

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Quality in Higher Education by David Andrew Turner Pdf

The quality of higher education is a hot topic, especially as students around the world are asked to pay more towards their own education, and expect to get what they pay for. In addition, league tables, both national and international, have come to dominate discussion, with several governments, and many institutions, setting themselves the goal of improving their ratings. In this volume Professor Turner examines the assumptions that are being made about what counts as quality, and what the traditional purposes of universities are. But with the growth of mass higher education, and the rise of student centred approaches to learning and teaching, it has become increasingly clear that high quality education is education that meets the needs of the student at that particular moment, and promotes their future development. After examining a range of different approaches to the quality of higher education and its measurement, Professor Turner develops an approach to benchmarking and quality enhancement that is better suited to the ethos of individualised learning, and uses it to critique the philosophies that have dominated debates about quality to date. This book will be of interest to scholars of higher education, but also has something important to add to debates that engage policy makers in higher education. It provides a background to the historical development of universities which might help postgraduate students ad new members of faculty understand the process in which they are engaged.

Author : Samuel Messick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : College students
ISBN : 1138987611

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Assessment in Higher Education by Samuel Messick Pdf

Assessment in Higher Education brings together in one place most of the major issues confronting higher education in the 1990s. These include enhancing student access, development, and success in higher education; transforming admissions testing to meet expanding educational needs; resolving the politics of accountability by assessing quality outcomes of higher education; assuring fair assessment responsive to human diversity; and facing the technological future of higher education. An integrative thread that weaves through all of these issues is the concept of equity, especially as it bears on social justice in education and on fairness in assessment. Another integrative thread is the role of computer and multimedia technology not only in improving the efficiency and power of all the functions of higher education assessment, but also in revolutionizing the delivery of higher education itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010540072

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carolin Kreber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780748694556

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Advances and Innovations in University Assessment and Feedback by Carolin Kreber Pdf

Explores changing perspectives and innovations in assessment in light of recent theorising and empirical research

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264096660

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Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education Lessons from PISA for the United States by OECD Pdf

This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210013121775

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309293228

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Knowing What Students Know by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment Pdf

Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1829 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799834397

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Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective leadership strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. It is crucial to investigate how effective administrators lead their organizations in challenging and difficult times and promote the accomplishments of their organization. Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs is a vital reference source that offers theoretical and pedagogical research concerning the management of educational systems on both the national and international scale. It also explores academic administration as well as administrative effectiveness in achieving organizational goals. Highlighting a range of topics such as strategic planning, human resources, and school culture, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, principals, superintendents, board members, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and students.

Author : Teresa McConlogue
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787353640

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Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: A Guide for Teachers by Teresa McConlogue Pdf

Teachers spend much of their time on assessment, yet many higher education teachers have received minimal guidance on assessment design and marking. This means assessment can often be a source of stress and frustration. Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education aims to solve these problems. Offering a concise overview of assessment theory and practice, this guide provides teachers with the help they need.

Author : Gordon Joughin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402089053

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Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education by Gordon Joughin Pdf

There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the assessment of student learning and its relation to the process of learning in higher education over the past ten years. This interest has been expressed in various ways – through large scale research projects, international conferences, the development of principles of assessment that supports learning, a growing awareness of the role of feedback as an integral part of the learning process, and the publication of exemplary assessment practices. At the same time, more limited attention has been given to the underlying nature of assessment, to the concerns that arise when assessment is construed as a measurement process, and to the role of judgement in evaluating the quality of students’ work. It is now timely to take stock of some of the critical concepts that underpin our understanding of the multifarious relationships between assessment and learning, and to explicate the nature of assessment as judgement. Despite the recent growth in interest noted above, assessment in higher education remains under-conceptualized. This book seeks to make a significant contribution to conceptualizing key aspects of assessment, learning and judgement.