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Baum, Sandy; Blom, Erica; Cohn, Jason – Urban Institute, 2022
All students deserve to attend programs and institutions that meet high quality standards. But different program goals, investments of time, and eligibility criteria make it difficult to set specific standards that will apply equally well to all types of programs and institutions. This report sets out principles for developing an accountability…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Risk
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Ottenritter, Nan – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
In summer 2003, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation awarded a grant to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) to address the national need for community college leaders. An extensive data-gathering process, part of the AACC Leading Forward project, resulted in the creation of the AACC competencies for community college leaders. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Development, Standard Setting, Benchmarking
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Hirner, Leo; Kochtanek, Thomas – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
The continued growth of online programs in higher education has resulted in concerns about how institutions monitor the quality of their online programs. These concerns indicate a need for a process by which online programs may be evaluated and compared. They provided the impetus for this study, the goals of which were to identify quality…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational Indicators