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Direct linkBradham, Tamala S.; Hoffman, Jeff; Houston, K. Todd; Guignard, Gayla Hutsell – Volta Review, 2011
State coordinators of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs completed a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, or SWOT, analysis that consisted of 12 evaluative areas of EHDI programs. For the quality improvement area, a total of 218 items were listed by 47 EHDI coordinators, and themes were identified in each…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Disability Identification, Early Intervention, Coordinators
Download full textScull, W. Reed; Kendrick, David; Shearer, Rick; Offerman, Dana – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
Distance education permeates the field of professional and continuing education to such an extent that quality assurance (QA) is a topic no distance educator or administrator should avoid. Quality assurance is an issue not just for continuing education but also for higher education generally. Given the disruptive impact of distance education and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Continuing Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Cao, Xun; Prakash, Aseem – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
Trade policy is an important topic in global public policy. It is recognized that trade is hampered when buyers have incomplete information about the offered products, a problem accentuated in the international markets by the physical and cultural distances between buyers and sellers. Buyers look for proxies to assess product quality, and…
Descriptors: International Trade, Competition, Quality Control, Standards
Papadimitriou, Antigoni – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
This article reports on research to form an understanding of how to account whether and how quality management (QM) has been adopted in Greek higher education. Greece only recently introduced quality assurance policies. In this study, I will describe governmental reforms related to QM policies until 2010. An issue that is frequently addressed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Leadership
Knudson, Joel – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2014
As district leaders search for the best ways to improve student learning with the Common Core State Standards, California districts are leading the way as early implementers of the new standards. The ideas and lessons emerging from their work can help other educators maximize the effectiveness of their own implementation efforts. This brief…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), 2012
In accordance with the ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) membership criteria laid down in the Statutes of ENQA, member agencies are required to undergo external reviews against the membership criteria, and thereby the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Control, Evaluation Criteria
Blackstock, Douglas; Burquel, Nadine; Comet, Nuria; Kajaste, Matti; dos Santos, Sergio Machado; Marcos, Sandra; Moser, Marion; Ponds, Henri; Scheuthle, Harald; Sixto, Luis Carlos Velon – ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), 2012
The Internal Quality Assurance group of ENQA (IQA Group) has been organising a yearly seminar for its members since 2007. The main objective is to share experiences concerning the internal quality assurance of work processes in the participating agencies. The overarching theme of the 2011 seminar was how to use benchmarking as a tool for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2012
Accreditation is a process of external quality review used by higher education education to scrutinize colleges, universities, and educational programs for quality assurance and quality improvement. In the United States, accreditation is carried out by private, nonprofit organizations designed for this specific purpose. Institutions and…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
Battel-Kirk, Barbara; Van der Zanden, Gerard; Schipperen, Marielle; Contu, Paolo; Gallardo, Carmen; Martinez, Ana; Garcia de Sola, Silvia; Sotgiu, Alessandra; Zaagsma, Miriam; Barry, Margaret M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Background: The CompHP Pan-European Accreditation Framework for Health Promotion was developed as part of the CompHP Project that aimed to develop competency-based standards and an accreditation system for health promotion practice, education, and training in Europe. Method: A phased, multiple-method approach was employed to facilitate consensus…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Health Promotion, Competence, Quality Control
Ossiannilsson, E. S. I. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: Benchmarking, a method for quality assurance has not been very commonly used in higher education with regard to e-learning. Today, e-learning is an integral part of higher education, and so should also be an integral part of quality assurance systems. However, quality indicators, benchmarks and critical success factors on e-learning have…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Quality Control
Casey, Michelle M.; Prasad, Shailendra; Klingner, Jill; Moscovice, Ira – Journal of Rural Health, 2012
Context: Quality measures focused on outpatient settings are of increasing interest to policy makers, but little research has been conducted on hospital outpatient quality measures, especially in rural settings. Purpose: To evaluate the relevance of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) outpatient quality measures for rural hospitals,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Hospitals, Measurement Techniques, Surgery
Engebretsen, Eivind; Heggen, Kristin; Eilertsen, Heidi Annett – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This article studies discourses within the accreditation of Norwegian higher education conducted by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), using one concrete case (the accreditation of bachelor programs in nursing). Analysis of policy documents and accreditation reports are influenced by two of Foucault's concepts of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Discourse Analysis, Quality Control, Accreditation (Institutions)
Morpeth, Ros; Creed, Charlotte – Open Learning, 2012
Inclusion has traditionally been conceptualised as integrating children into the formal schooling system. Recent research conducted in South Asia, however, adds to evidence that the huge number of children out of school and the diversity of their needs can only be met by a diversity of provision, formal and non-formal; that because many state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Wang, Jianjun – International Education Studies, 2013
News media often publish comparative studies that report U.S. student performance in a global context. The school quality concern seems so simplistic that anyone who had compulsory education can chime into the discussion. In this article, the condition of U.S. education is further disentangled across the boundary of K-12 and higher education. Core…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Schendel, Diana E.; Bresnahan, Michaeline; Carter, Kim W.; Francis, Richard W.; Gissler, Mika; Grønborg, Therese K.; Gross, Raz; Gunnes, Nina; Hornig, Mady; Hultman, Christina M.; Langridge, Amanda; Lauritsen, Marlene B.; Leonard, Helen; Parner, Erik T.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Sandin, Sven; Sourander, Andre; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Suominen, Auli; Surén, Pål; Susser, Ezra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The International Collaboration for Autism Registry Epidemiology (iCARE) is the first multinational research consortium (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Sweden, USA) to promote research in autism geographical and temporal heterogeneity, phenotype, family and life course patterns, and etiology. iCARE devised solutions to challenges in…
Descriptors: Autism, Epidemiology, International Cooperation, Consortia
