This book contains 24 essays addressing higher education evaluation and published in the International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education between 1979 and 1986. They are as follows: "The Evaluation of Higher Education: An Introductory Note" (Maurice Kogan); "Allocation of Public Funds on Instructional Performance/Quality Indicators" (Grady Bogue); "Northeast Missouri State University's Value Added Assessment Program: A Model for Educational Accountability" (Charles J. McClain et al.); "Assessment of Institutional Effectivesness at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville" (Trudy W. Banta et al.); "A Commentary on the Northeast Missouri and Tennessee Evaluation Models" (Marianne Bauer); "Improvement of Education through Internal Evaluation (AMOS)" (Pieter J. D. Drenth et al.); "A Preliminary Assessment of a New Method of Course Evaluation Based on Directed Small Group Discussions" (Robert W. Talbot and Georges Bordage); "Institutional Self Evaluation in Sweden" (Ann-Marie Furumark); "Assessing Institutional Performance: The Importance of Being Careful," (Leonard C. Romney et al.); "The Second Irony: The System of Institutional Evaluation in the United States" (H. R. Kells); "Institutional Performance Assessment Under Conditions of Changing Needs" (John Sizer); "Le Comite National d'Evaluation. An Innovation in French Higher Education" (Andre Staropoli); "Academic Program Review and the Determination of University Priorities" (Frederick E. Balderston); "Peer Review and Partnership: Patterns of Validation in the Public Sector of Higher Education in the United Kingdom" (John Brennan); "A Ten Year Perspective on Faculty Evaluation" (Richard I. Miller); "Evaluating Basic Units: Seven Fundamental Questions" (Rune Premfors); "Methods for the Evaluation of Research" (Michael Gibbons); "Resource Allocation Based on Evaluation of Research" (Michael Gibbons); "Resource Allocation Based on Evaluation of Research" (Rune Fransson); "Evaluation and Funding of University Research: Where Does the Need Lie?" (Jean Marie Archambault); "Excellence Versus Relevance: The Evaluation of Research" (Mary Henkel); "The Use of Bibliometric Data as Tools for University Research" (H. F. Moed et al.); "A Case Study on the Evaluation of Research at the Technical University of Denmark" (Peter Rasmussen); "The Evaluation of Research: An Economic Process" (Anne M. T. Rouban); and "External Assessment of Dutch Research Programmes" (Jack Spaapen). Contains 207 references and an index. (GLR)