Research handbook on quality, performance and accountability in higher education / edited by Ellen Hazelkorn (Professor Emeritus and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit, Dublin Institute of Technology and Partner, BH Associates, Ireland), Hamish Coates (Tenured Professor, Tsinghua University's Institute of Education, and Deputy Director, Tsinghua University Global Research Centre for the Assessment of College and Student Development, China), and Alexander C. McCormick (Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hazelkorn, Ellen, editor.

Coates, Hamish, 1974- editor.

McCormick, Alexander C., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Research.

Education, Higher.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Incorporated, 2018.

Summary:

The role, scale and expectations of higher education institutions have changed dramatically in recent times as knowledge intensity has become a key determinant of economic competitiveness. Higher education institutions face increasing pressure to demonstrate their fitness to meet the needs of society and individuals. Questions about the quality, performance and productivity of higher education are central to these concerns, and of relevance to society, governments and students. This Research Handbook brings together international scholars to address these issues and propose how to move beyond them. This Research Handbook is the first comprehensive reference of its kind, laying out current research in the field and bringing it up to date with cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions from leading international experts. Blending new research with richly contextualised national and regional examples, the authors give authoritative insights from around the globe on how best to understand, assess and improve quality, performance and accountability in higher education. This Research Handbook will become an invaluable tool for practitioners in higher education and education policy-making as well as researchers and students of social science and public policy.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction

1. Quality, performance, and accountability: emergent challenges in the global era / Ellen Hazelkorn, Hamish Coates and Alexander C. McCormick

Part I Overarching issues and framing perspectives

2. Lessons learned from two decades of quality in higher education / Lee Harvey

3. Challenges for quality assurance in higher education: the regulatory turn / Roger King

4. Can public policy promote academic quality?: an assessment of policy instruments for instruction and research / David Dill

5. Goals, guesses and gains: learning outcomes policies in regulatory activities / Mary Catharine Lennon

6. Perspectives and advances on productivity measurement in higher education / William F. Massy and Sandra Archer

7. Cross-border educational accountability: navigating accountability expectations when educational provision crosses borders / Jason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser and Li Zhang

8. Private and for-profit higher education in europe: current patterns and regulatory challenges / Pedro Teixeira and Alberto Amaral

9. When intuition misfires: a meta-analysis of research on performance-based funding in higher education / Elizabeth Bell, Alisa Hicklin Fryar and Nicholas Hillman

10. Accountability in higher education: different forms, functions and forums / Jeroen Huisman

Part II Indicators and rankings

11. Using indicators in higher education policy. between accountability, monitoring and management / Michaela Martin

12. Indicators and global trends in higher education development / N.V. Varghese

13. Understanding and improving higher education productivity / Kenneth Moore, Hamish Coates and Gwilym Croucher

14. Comparing and benchmarking higher education systems / Ross Williams

15. Perspectives on measuring and classifying institutional performance / Victor Borden, Hamish Coates and Robert G. Bringle

16. Rankings and their impact on Chinese higher education / Tianli Yang and Nian Cai Liu

17. Between rhetoric and reality: university reporting on academic research commercialization, entrepreneurship and innovation / Robert Tijssen

18. The impact and influence of rankings on the quality, performance and accountability agenda / Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson

Part III Assessing learning and the student experience

19. Performance indicators of learning in higher education institutions: an overview of the field /Richard Shavelson, Olga Troitschanskaia and Julian Marino

20. Global assessments of disciplinary knowledge: what we learned from AHELO / Mary Catharine Lennon, Satoko Fukahori and Daniel Edwards

21. Quality efforts at the discipline level: Bologna's tuning process / Robert Wagenaar

22. Revisiting student performance as a cornerstone of higher education: how is student performance reflected in performance-based funding? / Dominic Orr and Alex Usher

23. Assuring high quality learning for all students: lessons from the field / George Kuh and Natasha Jankowski

24. What kind of quality assurance leads to improved performance and accountability?: the views of European students / Jens Jungblut, Bjorn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic

25. The student voice in quality assessment and improvement / Manja Klemenčič

Part IV National and comparative contexts

26. Fit for purpose: intellectual, political and operational struggles in South African quality assurance / Lis Lange and Francois Strydom

27. Towards building useful institutional reporting systems for research and innovation in African higher education: a lateral view / Sibusiso Moyo

28. Governing quality in a transforming higher education system: the case of China / Jinghuan Shi, Yan Luo, Wen Wen and Fei Guo

29. Quality assurance of higher education in East Asia: changes, characteristics and challenges / Futao Huang

30. Quality assurance and its use in Taiwan higher education: implications for fully accredited and non-fully accredited institutions / Angela Yung-chi Hou

31. Funding reform in Malaysian public universities: examining the current situation / Russayani Ismail, Chang Da Wan and Yusnidah Ibrahim

32. Higher Education Policy in the Philippines: Quality Assurance for Socio-Economic Development? / Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo and Everard Weber

33. National performance assessment and accountability in higher education: lessons from Australia / Marian Mahat and Martin Hanlon

34. Lessons from analysing failure in higher education policy in Australia / Gwilym Croucher

35. Changing patterns of accountability in the UK: from QA to TEF / Roger Brown

36. Exploring the institutionalization of quality assurance in post-communist higher education / Michael Dobbins and Katja Aleksandriyskaya

37. Governance tools to increase quality and diversity in higher education: Emerging trends in Norway / Ole-Jacob Skodvin and Stein Erik Lid

38. Measurement of postsecondary performance in Canada: Moving beyond inputs and funding to outputs and outcomes / Harvey P. Weingarten and Martin Hicks

39. Transforming quality assurance in Chilean Higher education: development, reviews and reform. / Emeline Jerez and Christian Blanco

Part V Future directions

40. Changing system-level conceptualisations of performance in higher education / Peter Noonan

41. Emerging trends in higher education governance: reflecting on performance, accountability and transparency / Ian Austin and Glen A. Jones

42. Civic and regional engagement and accountability / Paul Benneworth and Nadine Zeeman

43. Transparency tools for higher education / Ben Jongbloed, Hans Vossensteyn, Frans van Vught and Don F. Westerheijden

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781785369759 (e-book)

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