Standards And Quality In Education

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee for the Workshop on Alternatives for Assessing Adult Education and Literacy Programs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309084536

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Performance Assessments for Adult Education by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee for the Workshop on Alternatives for Assessing Adult Education and Literacy Programs Pdf

In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and limited English proficient adults. Those receiving adult education services have diverse reasons for seeking additional education. With the passage of the WIA, the assessment of adult education students became mandatory-regardless of their reasons for seeking services. The law does allow the states and local programs flexibility in selecting the most appropriate assessment for the student. The purpose of the NRC's workshop was to explore issues related to efforts to measure learning gains in adult basic education programs, with a focus on performance-based assessments.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264130845

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Equity and Quality in Education Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools by OECD Pdf

Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. This book presents a series of policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed.

Author : Ivan Ivić,Slobodanka Antic,Ana Pešikan
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783847102243

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Textbook Quality by Ivan Ivić,Slobodanka Antic,Ana Pešikan Pdf

This book is about textbooks, textbook quality and quality standards of textbooks. From a theoretical point of view, in the light of Bahtin's theory of speech genres, school textbooks are seen as a specific, complex genre, defined by the addressee. At the same time, this approach requires us to see textbooks as a cultural product. From an educational point of view, textbooks are, according to Vygotsky's theory of cultural development, a key socio-cultural aid to cognitive development in school years. Forty-three quality standards are operationally defined and explained. They can be used for compiling textbooks, for textbook accreditations, for textbook evaluation and for selection by teachers.

Author : Dr Colin C Bayne-Jardine,Charles Hoy,Dr Margaret Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135700997

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Improving Quality in Education by Dr Colin C Bayne-Jardine,Charles Hoy,Dr Margaret Wood Pdf

*Explores the best acknowledged ways to maintain and improve school education in the UK *Highlights ways for achieving required standards (such as DfEE standards) *Explores the need to find the right balance between external inspection and internal self-examination as methods for identifying sustainable improvements in schools. While predominantly directed at quality in schools, the book looks outward to quality assurance routes used in FE/HE colleges. It provides a practical opportunity for assessing the effectiveness of methods of quality measurement and shows that inspection is a necessary, but not solely sufficient, condition to develop quality.

Author : Sony, Michael,Karingada, Kochu Therisa,Baporikar, Neeta
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522598312

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Quality Management Implementation in Higher Education: Practices, Models, and Case Studies by Sony, Michael,Karingada, Kochu Therisa,Baporikar, Neeta Pdf

Although initially utilized in business and industrial environments, quality management systems can be adapted into higher education to assess and improve an institution’s standards. These strategies are now playing a vital role in educational areas such as teaching, learning, and institutional-level practices. However, quality management tools and models must be adapted to fit with the culture of higher education. Quality Management Implementation in Higher Education: Practices, Models, and Case Studies is a pivotal reference source that explores the challenges and solutions of designing quality management models in the current educational culture. Featuring research on topics such as Lean Six Sigma, distance education, and student supervision, this book is ideally designed for school board members, administrators, deans, policymakers, stakeholders, professors, graduate students, education professionals, and researchers seeking current research on the applications and success factors of quality management systems in various facets of higher education.

Author : Kay Shattuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000979411

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Assuring Quality in Online Education by Kay Shattuck Pdf

Online distance education continues to grow at a fast pace, even outpacing the overall growth of U.S. higher education. Demands for quality are coming from all shareholders involved. As if caught by surprise, a patchwork response to quality is often the typical organizational response. The result can be inconsistent and uncoordinated levels of value to those invested in online learning. This often promotes negative images of the educational experience and institution.Comprised of highly regarded experts in the field, this edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of quality assurance, a snapshot of current practices and proven recommendations for raising standards of quality in online education.Topics discussed include:* Improving practices for teaching online* Using educational analytics for quality assurance and improvement* Accessibility: An important dimension of quality assurance* Assuring quality in online course design* Assuring quality in learner support, academic resources, advising and counseling* The role and realities of accreditationThis text clearly answers the call for addressing quality from a broad, deep and coordinated understanding. It addresses the complexities of quality assurance in higher education and offers professionals top-shelf advice and support. *This text is also appropriate for students enrolled in Educational Technology and Higher Education Administration Masters and PhD programs

Author : Stamelos Georgios,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi
Publisher : Studera Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789385883279

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education by Stamelos Georgios,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi Pdf

The significant growth of number of students enrolled in tertiary education institutions in the recent past decades has caused an unprecedented expansion of higher education systems. The rapid and constant social, economic and technological mutations and international competition make the importance of qualitatively well-educated citizenry and labor forces very decisive. Globalization has developed a powerful impact on the development of higher education and imposes new challenges for the organization (standards, financing, regulations). Systems of higher education tend to detach from the national models and adopt a more "global" orientation. The implementation of quality assurance is one of the recent and most decisive transformations of higher education. Different higher education systems are trying to develop assessment tools (internal and external) to improve the quality of teaching, research and extension activities, and these are either based on experiences of selected countries or are extensively country specific. The quality assurance procedures that were often dependent on national directorial traditions have gradually tended to converge and led to a setup of common tools and standards. Countries under a centralized system tend to impose a uniform and general model while decentralized systems give greater freedom to universities to set up their own quality. International rankings of universities also contribute to impose a set of transnational standards and values, which is also being considered as indicative by the stakeholders. The present book tries to look at the quality assurance mechanism, international rankings and its impact in both absolute and comparative fashion in context of 11 countries from different parts of the world.

Author : Dennis M. McInerney,Shawn Van Etten,Martin Dowson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607526278

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Standards in Education by Dennis M. McInerney,Shawn Van Etten,Martin Dowson Pdf

Education institutions and organizations throughout the world are currently being held accountable for achieving and maintaining historically unmatched standards of academic quality and performance. Accreditation bodies; policy makers; boards of trustees; and teacher, parent, and student groups all place educational institutions and organizations under unprecedented accountability pressures. The aim of this volume is to explore and better understand how these pressures are impacting a broad range of social and cultural issues and, subsequently, how these issues impact student motivation and learning.

Author : Carol Campbell,Ken Zeichner,Ann Lieberman,Pamela Osmond-Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119369684

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Empowered Educators in Canada by Carol Campbell,Ken Zeichner,Ann Lieberman,Pamela Osmond-Johnson Pdf

BEST PRACTICES FROM CANADA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMS Empowered Educators in Canada is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the authors of this volume. Empowered Educators in Canada details the core commonalities that exist across Canada with special emphasis on the localized nature of the systems—a hallmark of Canadian education. Canada boasts a highly educated population, and the provinces/territories truly value education as evidenced by the significant proportion of public funds allocated to schooling. Operated by the provinces and territories, participation in kindergarten, primary, and secondary education is close to 100% across the nation. In addition to offering traditional academics, secondary education includes opportunities for students to attend technical and vocational programs. To demonstrate exemplary education systems, the authors examine two top-performing jurisdictions, Alberta and Ontario, which have developed strong supports for teacher development. Canadian teachers are highly qualified, and salary scales in all jurisdictions are typically based on a teacher's level of education and years of experience. While Canada has enjoyed much educational success, the education of First Nations students has historically been one of the country's more controversial and contentious issues. Overall, Canada is a country that is proud of its education system and places a high value on—and participation in—publicly funded education.

Author : Marsha Speck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1299395716

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Why Can't We Get It Right? by Marsha Speck Pdf

Author : Professor Kate Ashcroft,Kate Ashcroft,Dr Lorraine Foreman-Peck,Lorraine Foreman-Peck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135719906

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The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities by Professor Kate Ashcroft,Kate Ashcroft,Dr Lorraine Foreman-Peck,Lorraine Foreman-Peck Pdf

A follow-up volume to "Managing Teaching and Learning in Further Education and Higher Education", this text provides a guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. It covers key issues such as teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation, course design, bidding for and managing resources, marketing and research.; Based on the model of lecturer as reflective practitioner, this book is intended to help enable the lecturer to make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards. Its interactive design introduces stimulating ideas and suggestions for further reading and provides guidelines on issues of relevance to individual readers.

Author : Geraldine MacCarrick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857297136

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Quality Assurance in Medical Education by Geraldine MacCarrick Pdf

This book is an easy-to-read, practical guide for any medical school preparing for accreditation or institutional review. It contains practical guidance on the use of internationally accepted standards with a particular focus on what it is that external accrediting teams will be looking for both before and during their site visit. This book will appeal to medical school faculty as well as faculty from other health professions schools who are preparing for either high stakes accreditation or internal review. It may also appeal to agencies responsible for accrediting medical schools who wish to become more familiar with the international standards.

Author : John Brennan,Peter De Vries,Ruth Williams
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853024236

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Standards and Quality in Higher Education by John Brennan,Peter De Vries,Ruth Williams Pdf

This 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 : Jon Yorke,Lesley Vidovich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : HM Inspectorate of Education (Scotland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0705310000

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Standards and Quality in Primary and Secondary Schools by HM Inspectorate of Education (Scotland) Pdf