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Download full textKleinhans, Janne; Schumann, Matthias – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
In the context of education and training, competency measurement (CM) is a central challenge in competency management. For complex CMs, a compromise must be addressed between the time available and the number of dimensions to be measured or the quality of the measurements. Increasing the efficiency of existing tests for CMs therefore poses a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Allied Health Personnel, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedTaylor, Isaac – Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to highlight how globalization and the development of knowledge-based economy is effecting the higher education system of Malaysia. This reflective analysis examined the policies and practices, in the higher education of Malaysia that internationalizes its higher education systems; the impact of globalization and the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, International Education, Knowledge Economy
Direct linkMurmura, Federica; Casolani, Nicola; Bravi, Laura – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
This paper develops a theoretical framework that could facilitate the application of the Autovalutazione, Valutazione periodica, Accreditamento (AVA) method in Italian universities, trying to simplify the use of this approach, and to cover the existing gap between Italy and others European academic institutions. The new competitive environment in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Implementation, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Warner-Richter, Mallory; Lowe, Claire; Tout, Kathryn; Epstein, Dale; Li, Weilin – Child Trends, 2016
The Success By 6® (SB6) initiative is designed to support early care and education centers in improving and sustaining quality in Pennsylvania's Keystone STARS Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The SB6 evaluation report examines implementation and outcomes. The findings have implications for SB6 continous quality improvement process…
Descriptors: Success, Research Reports, Child Care Centers, Quality Assurance
Education Scotland, 2016
The new quality framework, "How good is our college?" is a tool to support and enable colleges to evaluate the quality of provision and services alongside reporting on progress in relation to outcome agreements. It is designed to be used by all college staff. Colleges will evaluate the quality of their provision and services using the 12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Universities, Higher Education
Phalachandra, B.; Abeywardena, Ishan – Commonwealth of Learning, 2016
This study was conducted as part of the OER for Skills Development project of COL, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The objective of the study was to collect baseline data from Commonwealth institutions with respect to the development, use and reuse of OER; the availability of support; and challenges faced in fostering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Mathis, William J. – National Education Policy Center, 2016
This is a section of "Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking," a multipart brief that takes up a number of important policy issues and identifies policies supported by research. Each section focuses on a different issue, and its recommendations to policymakers are based on the latest scholarship. A founding premise of charter…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Elshafie, Marwa – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
The aim of this small-scale research is to explore the hidden world of the workplace trainer. Four trainers from a training institute in Qatar were interviewed and asked about their opinions of the employee as a learner, the trainer's work, and the role of quality compliance in the training process. After transcribing and analysing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Trainers, Semi Structured Interviews
DiSalvio, Philip – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Nearly a year ago, "NEJHE" launched its "New Directions for Higher Education" series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices. In this installment, Philip DiSalvio interviews Judith S. Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends
Cheng, Mei-Ai; Leung, Noel W. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This study examines the current government policy and institutional practice on quality assurance of non-local accounting programs conducted in Hong Kong. Both international guidelines, national regulations and institutional frameworks in higher education and transnational higher education, and professional practice in accounting education are…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Accounting, College Programs, Public Policy
Karimi, Florah Katanu – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The aim of this study was to establish the levels and types of didactic competencies that exist among teaching staff in universities in Kenya, giving recognition to curriculum development, pedagogical attributes and quality assurance competencies. The study was carried out in two phases among two samples of the teaching staff population. The first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, College Faculty, Curriculum Development
Hou, Angela Yung-chi – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Cross-border higher education has created a need to build capacity -- particularly in the internationalization dimension -- for national quality assurance agencies to evaluate cross-border education provided by foreign educational providers, or jointly by local and foreign institutions. This is quickly becoming a key issue in the Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Barriers
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2017
This report informs Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, the Parliament of Australia, the Australian higher education community and the general public about the performance of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA or the agency) during the financial year ending 30 June 2017. Prepared according…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Academic Standards, Accountability
Davis, Elise; Freeman, Ramona; Doherty, Gillian; Karlsson, Malene; Everiss, Liz; Couch, Jane; Foote, Lyn; Murray, Patricia; Modigliani, Kathy; Owen, Sue; Griffin, Sue; Friendly, Martha; McDonald, Grace; Bohanna, India; Corr, Lara; Smyth, Lisa; Morkeseth, Elisabeth Ianke; Morreaunet, Sissel; Ogi, Mari; Fukukawa, Sumi; Hinke-Rahnau, Jutta – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
Despite emerging evidence of the contributors to high-quality family day care, a comprehensive comparison of international family day care systems has not been undertaken. The aim of this paper is to compare regulated family day care (FDC) in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Schwandt, Thomas A. – Education Inquiry, 2012
Notions of "quality," "standards" and "accountability" are ever-present in many societies around the world and, arguably, we would be hard pressed to journey through life without appeals of one kind or another to these ideas. Our everyday interactions with people and things reflect the fact that standards of various…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Standards, Accountability
