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Quality Assessment for Higher Education
Edited by Alessandro Cavalli, Pavia, Italy
CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction By Alessandro Cavalli
1
The changing concepts of quality in the assessment of study programmes, teaching and learning
Don F. Westerheijden.........5–16
- 2
- The multiple functions of evaluation and quality assessment
- John Brennan..........17–25
- 3
- Assessment and management in institutions of higher education
- Jef C. Verhoeven............27–41
- 4
- Assessment as a tool for different kinds of action: from quality management to compliance and control
- Alberto Amaral, Maria Joćo Rosa and Diana Tavares..........43–53
- 5
- Accreditation: the role of a new assessment approach in Europe and the overall map of evaluation in European higher education
- Ulrich Teichler..........55–64
- 6
- Quality assessment and indicators in higher education: needs, problems and potential
- Jan Sadlak..........65–69
- 7
- The potential and problems of peer evaluation in higher education and research
- Hans-Dieter Daniel, Sandra Mittag and Lutz Bornmann............71–82
- 8
- Strengths and weaknesses of citation indices and impact factors
- Alessandro Figą-Talamanca..........83–88
- 9
- The underestimated humanities and social sciences
- Wim Blockmans............89–94
- 10
- Stability amidst a storm of evaluation: policy trends and practice in higher education evaluation in Japan
- Akiyoshi Yonezawa...............95–103
- 11
- Improving the evaluation of the education–employment relationship in France
- Pierre Dubois...........105–114
- 12
- The accreditation system in The Netherlands and Flanders
- Karl Dittrich and Leendert Klaassen.............115–125
- 13
- Accreditation in The Netherlands: an improvement of external quality assessment?
- Wynand Wijnen................127–133
- 14
- Quality assessment in higher education: an overview of institutionalization, practices, problems and conflicts
- Massimiliano Vaira...........135–146
- Subject index
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