Has External Quality Assurance Actually Improved Quality in Higher Education over the Course of 20 Years of the "Quality Revolution"?

Autor/in	Kristensen, Bente
Titel	Has External Quality Assurance Actually Improved Quality in Higher Education over the Course of 20 Years of the "Quality Revolution"?
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 16 (2010) 2, S.153-157 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
Schlagwörter	Quality Control; Educational Quality; Institutional Evaluation; Accreditation (Institutions); Self Evaluation (Groups); Educational Development; Educational Improvement; Guidelines; Total Quality Management; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitätskontrolle; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Bildungsentwicklung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Richtlinien; Quality management; Qualitätsmanagement; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator
Abstract	At the beginning of the last 20 years so-called "quality revolution" it was expected from most of the established national quality agencies that internal quality systems and the development of an internal quality culture would emerge automatically in the HEI from the external quality impact. The author argues that a better balance must be found between internal and external quality assurance and quality improvement. She therefore, finds it most stimulating that the European Standards and Guidelines underline that external evaluations largely depend for their full effectiveness on there being an explicit internal quality assurance strategy, with specific objectives and on the use, within institutions, of mechanisms and methods aimed at achieving those objectives. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10