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Direct linkNgware, Moses Waithanji; Wamukuru, David Kuria; Odebero, Stephen Onyango – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: To investigate the extent to which secondary schools practiced aspects of total quality management (TQM). Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional research design was used in this study. A sample of 300 teachers in a residential session during a school holiday provided their perceptions on the practice of TQM in their schools. Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Participative Decision Making, Secondary Schools, Total Quality Management
Emiliani, M. L. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: To present an outsider's view of how management education can be significantly improved. Design/methodology/approach: Focuses on correcting several obvious deficiencies in courses and degree programs to create highly differentiated educational experiences that are more relevant to student's needs and the organizations that employ…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Business Administration Education, Administrator Education, Educational Experience
Jackson, Michael – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: The argument is that good and bad teaching are asymmetrical. Eradicating what is readily thought of as bad teaching does not leave behind the purse gold of good teaching. Good teaching is that which promotes student learning. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between bad teaching and good teaching in graduate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Bush, Martin E. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2006
Purpose: To provide educationalists with an understanding of the key quality issues relating to multiple-choice tests, and a set of guidelines for the quality assurance of such tests. Design/methodology/approach: The discussion of quality issues is structured to reflect the order in which those issues naturally arise. It covers the design of…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Reliability, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Joseph, Mathew; Yakhou, Mehenna; Stone, George – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to assess some of the self-reported factors that students in the study used as choice criteria in making their school selection. Design/methodology/approach: The results of this study were obtained by conducting a series of focus groups involving incoming freshmen at a small liberal arts university…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Experience, Liberal Arts, College Freshmen
Telford, Ronnie; Masson, Ron – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To investigate, in the context of university education, the relationship between the congruence of the quality values held by the students, the teaching staff and the university senior management and the level of student satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The research was carried out within a large Business School in a major UK…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Congruence (Psychology), Values, College Students
Osseo-Asare, Augustus E.; Longbottom, David; Murphy, William D. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To deepen the understanding and to encourage further research on leadership best practices for sustaining quality improvement in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: The literature on leadership provides the theoretical context for the survey of quality managers from 42 UK HEIs. A mix of questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership Effectiveness, Hypothesis Testing, Foreign Countries
Rodgers, Timothy – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: The United Kingdom (UK) has recently published secondary education value added measures. This paper examines whether the approach used could also offer a possible method for measuring value added in higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach: Previous attempts to measure HE value added in the UK, such as comparative value added…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Secondary Education
Watty, Kim – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To provide a view of quality in accounting education from the perspective of a critical stakeholder group--academic accountants. The identification of this view adds to the growing discussions around quality, and how it is assured in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Applying a framework for defining quality in higher…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Alashloo, Fariborz Rahimnia; Castka, Pavel; Sharp, John M. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To identify the impeders of strategy implementation in the higher education (HE) sector of Iran. Design/methodology/approach: A structured questionnaire was distributed to the academic staff from Iranian Universities. The questionnaire consisted of closed and open questions. Data were gathered from the major universities in different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
An Improvement in Instructional Quality: Can Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness Make a Difference?
Ngware, Moses Waithanji; Ndirangu, Mwangi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To report study findings on teaching effectiveness and feedback mechanisms in Kenyan universities, which can guide management in developing a comprehensive quality control policy. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted an exploratory descriptive design. Three public and two private universities were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Universities
Temponi, Cecilia – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To analyze the main elements of continuous improvement (CI) in higher education and the concerns of academia's stakeholders in the implementation of such an approach. Suggests guidelines for the development of a culture more receptive to the implementation and maintenance of a CI approach in higher education. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Quality Control
Emiliani, M. L. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: To illustrate the applicability of "kaizen" in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: "Kaizen" process was used for ten courses contained in a part-time executive MS degree program in management. Findings: "Kaizen" was found to be an effective process for improving graduate business school courses and the value proposition for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Development, Masters Degrees, Educational Improvement
Marzo-Navarro, Mercedes; Pedraja-Iglesias, Marta; Rivera-Torres, M. Pilar – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: The recent changes that have occurred in the Spanish university teaching environment, such as growing competition, have caused these courses to become an important differentiating element of what is offered by each university. Therefore, the authors propose to delve deeper into the relationship existing between satisfaction and the intent…
Descriptors: Participant Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Kistan, Chandru – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2005
Purpose: This article seeks to highlight the challenges and issues that face merging higher education institutions and also to outline some of the challenges in integrating the quality assurance systems during the pre-, interim and post-merger phases in a merged university. Design/methodology/approach: Case studies of merged and merging…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Leadership
