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Direct linkBradshaw, Kelsey M.; Donohue, Bradley; Fayeghi, Jasmine; Lee, Tiffany; Wilks, Chelsey R.; Ross, Brendon – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
The widespread adoption of research-supported treatments by mental health providers has facilitated empirical development of quality assurance (QA) methods. Research in this area has focused on QA systems aimed at assuring the integrity of research-supported treatment implementation, while examination of QA systems to assure appropriate…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Mental Health, Case Records, Standardized Tests
Download full textMueller, Betsy; Peterangelo, Joe; Henken, Rob – Public Policy Forum, 2016
The State of Wisconsin's YoungStar system was created by the Legislature and Governor in 2010 to "drive quality improvement in child care throughout the state." YoungStar uses a five-star system to rate child care providers based on several measures of quality, including staff education levels, learning environment, business methods, and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Outcome Measures
Pérez Gama, Jesús Alfonso; Vega Vega, Anselmo – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
We look for the High Quality Accreditation of tertiary education in two ways: one, involving large amount of information, including issues such as self-assessment, high quality, statistics, indicators, surveys, and field work (process engineering), during several periods of time; and the second, in relation to the information contained there about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Educational Quality
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2018
This report informs the Hon Dan Tehan, Minister for Education, 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 June 30, 2018. Prepared according to parliamentary reporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Academic Standards, Accountability
Kotlyarov, I. V.; Kostyukevich, S. V.; Yakovleva, N. I. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
In this article we investigate the problem of the balance of fundamental and applied training in technical colleges through the lens of a historical analysis of the development of the Soviet school of engineering. We demonstrate that the Soviet school of engineering became overreliant on fundamental education due to historical features of its…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development
Rosadi, Kemas Imron – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Development of education in Indonesia is based on three aspects, namely equity and expansion, quality and relevance, as well as good governance. Quality education is influenced by several factors related to quality education managerial leaders, limited funds, facilities, educational facilities, media, learning resources, tools and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Qualitative Research
Leisyte, Liudvika; Zelvys, Rimantas; Zenkiene, Lina – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The paper explores the implementation of selected Bologna action lines in Lithuanian higher education institutions (HEIs). The study is carried out from an organizational perspective on national re-contextualization, drawing upon sociological institutionalism. The Bologna process is likely to be normatively accepted by institutions in the context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Student Mobility
Ayonmike, Chinyere Shirley; Okwelle, P. Chijioke; Okeke, Benjamin Chukwumaijem – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is widely recognized as a vital driving force for the socio-economic growth and technological development of nations. In achieving the goals and objectives of TVET in Nigeria, the quality of the programme needs to be improved and sustained. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Kleinhans, 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
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
Idogho, Philipa Omamhe; Eshiotse, Sunday Gabriel – Online Submission, 2012
Access to educational opportunities has witnessed significant facilitation, especially in developing economies where ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups abound. The global initiative anchored by COL (commonwealth of learning) in collaboration with institutions and agencies is helping to further reinforce the "global image"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Quality Assurance, Electronic Learning
Okunola, Philips Olayide; Oladipo, Simeon Adebayo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
The broad intent of any educational reform is premised on the assumption that it is capable of improving educational process and practices, hence, the need for evaluation of the system's process in order to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of resource allocation. Education is capital intensive in terms of human, financial and material…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Educational Change
Spangehl, Stephen D. – Planning for Higher Education, 2012
For the past 12 years, the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) has offered an innovative means for colleges and universities to maintain regional accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the only regional U.S. accrediting commission currently providing alternative pathways for maintaining accreditation. Although all HLC…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Educational Quality, Improvement Programs
Bernhard, Andrea – Tertiary Education and Management, 2012
Transparency and comparability of higher education institutions especially in terms of their academic programmes and research activities are important issues for today's working environment. This paper is an overview of a recently completed PhD thesis which outlines examples of selected Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Change
