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Laura Jarrell; Dale Kirby – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the roles of quality managers at community colleges, their experiences balancing accountability and improvement and their insights into the future of quality assurance. Design/methodology/approach: This phenomenological, qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with eight community college quality…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Administrators
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2024
Microcredentials hold promise for connecting people's skillsets with labour market demand in a rapidly changing world of work. They have proliferated in recent years across economic sectors and education levels, reinforcing European and national efforts to understand and develop them better. They can increase the provision of…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Credibility, Educational Practices, Education Work Relationship
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Avi J. Cohen – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Using the backward design model, the author of this article surveys and connects the economic competencies literature evolving from Hansen with the literature on literacy-targeted principles courses. He makes the case why departments should offer LT principles courses--which focus on higher-level mastery of a shorter list of concepts that students…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Teaching Methods, Mastery Learning, Nonmajors
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Hector Vargas; Ruben Heradio; Gonzalo Farias; Zhongcheng Lei; Luis de la Torre – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: A competency assessment framework that enables learning analytics for course monitoring and continuous improvement. Our work fills the gap in systematic methods for competency assessment in higher education. Background: Many institutions are shifting toward competency-based education (CBE), thus encouraging their educators to start…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Learning Analytics, Higher Education, College Students
Nicole Martello – ProQuest LLC, 2024
U.S. higher education accreditation is increasingly sought by international higher education institutions (HEIs) as a quality-assurance mechanism and as a way to improve competitiveness for mobile students in the twenty-first century. When U.S. higher education accreditation is implemented outside the United States, there is the potential for the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), International Cooperation, Institutional Cooperation
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Steven Bruneel; Eline Vanassche – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This paper explores the relational dynamics in 10 triads from one university-based teacher education programme in England. Positioning theory and frame analysis are integrated to understand how teacher educators, mentors, and student teachers make sense of the placement experience and distribute mutual rights and duties. Data were derived from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Teacher Education, Teacher Placement
Darlene M. Schaefer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers at K-12 supplemental virtual programs may support Quality Matters™ peer reviews for organization-managed master courses. Although there are time, focus, and capacity concerns with this practice as teachers in supplemental programs may not have expertise in designing virtual courses or writing virtual content, the experience of serving as…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, High School Teachers
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Oksana Melnyk; Olena Dashkovska; Vitalii Pogrebnyak – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2024
The integration of Ukrainian higher education into the European educational area is a key condition for its reform and development. It provides for the activation of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of higher education, harmonization of higher education systems, deepening of cooperation between higher education…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Study Abroad
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Zoe Stephenson; Amy Jackson; Victoria Wilkes – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
The closed-door PhD and doctoral viva voce--the approach adopted in the United Kingdom--is esteemed by some as being a valuable academic tradition. However, an increasing body of literature and research has raised concerns about the quality, transparency, reliability and validity of this viva format. This systematic literature review aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Persuasive Discourse
OECD Publishing, 2024
This report analyses twelve quality assurance systems that cover non-formal adult learning to identify the quality areas and criteria typically included in these systems, as well as the evidence that training providers can submit to prove compliance with them. The different quality areas, criteria and indicators are analysed and structured in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Quality Assurance, Nonformal Education, Foreign Countries
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Dadan Djuanda; Cucun Sunaengsih; Aah Ahmad Syahid; Kaniati Amalia; Juni Artha Juneli – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2024
Quality academic services provide a conducive and supportive learning environment for all education customers at every level of education, and primary schools are no exception. However, the facts in the field show that there are still complaints from teachers, students, and parents regarding academic services in elementary schools. This study aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Schools
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2024
Building on years of joint work within the Copenhagen Process, European countries have now committed to common priorities laid down in the 2020 Council Recommendation on Vocational Education and Training (VET) for Sustainable Competitiveness, Social Fairness and Resilience and the Osnabrück Declaration of the same year. The Recommendation marked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Betsy Gilbertson; Stephanie Shepherd; Jeffrey Fergus – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This design case explores the development of tools to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in course design and teaching at a predominantly white institution. We designed a suite of tools for instructional designers and faculty to review online courses, helping to ensure quality course design and meaningful learning experiences…
Descriptors: Ethics, Courses, Design, Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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Kinjawan, Azlin Bt Azlan Philip; Fook, Chan Yuen; Jamian, Leele Susana – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
This paper uncovers School Inspection as the central measure of quality improvement of education in Malaysia. Undeniably, the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 has posed greater demand for quality assurance and monitoring as well as organizational efficiency and accountability. Consequently, the Malaysian Inspectorate of Schools and Quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Hauptman Komotar, Maruša – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how global university rankings interact with quality and quality assurance in higher education along the two lines of investigation, that is, from the perspective of their relationship with the concept of quality (assurance) and the development of quality assurance policies in higher education, with…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Reputation
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