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Hardison, Chaitra M.; Vilamovska, Anna-Marie – RAND Corporation, 2009
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a measure of how much students' critical thinking improves after attending college or university. This report illustrates how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the CLA's unique characteristics. The authors examined evidence of reliability and…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Evaluation Methods, Research Reports, Critical Thinking
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Papadourakis, George M.; Natsika, Christina; Magnan, Myrna; Barsics, Joseph – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
VALEURTECH is a pilot project under the European Commission's Leonardo II programme. It includes 35 partners from higher education institutions and professional organizations in eight European countries and has the major objectives: of (a) setting up a homogeneous "labelling" process, such as a diploma supplement, based on a common…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Information Science, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis
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Lagrosen, Stefan; Seyyed-Hashemi, Roxana; Leitner, Markus – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2004
In recent years, numerous studies in the field of service quality have been carried out. However, relatively few studies have addressed the specific context of higher education. The purpose of this study has been to examine what dimensions constitute quality in higher education and to compare these with the dimensions of quality that have been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Factor Analysis, Educational Quality, Quality Control