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Hauptman Komotar, Maruša – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how global university rankings interact with quality and quality assurance in higher education along the two lines of investigation, that is, from the perspective of their relationship with the concept of quality (assurance) and the development of quality assurance policies in higher education, with…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Reputation
Pham, Nhung Thi Tuyet – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to share quality process experience from a US comprehensive university to use both direct (participation rate and assessment quality) and indirect assessment measures (assessment survey) to evaluate the quality process. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method design was used to evaluate the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Organizational Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Institutional Evaluation
Zawada, Britta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of a culture of high quality and show how a culture of high or exceptional quality goes beyond the functional apparatus of quality assurance, the so-called props on the stage, to the enactment and ultimately to the shared meaning-making and webs of significance for both the institution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, School Culture, Universities
Exploring the Reliability and Validity of the Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) in an Arab Setting
Yousef, D. A. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to examine the reliability and validity of the learning style construct conceptualized by Honey and Mumford (1986) in educational settings in the United Arab Emirates. Design/methodology/approach: Two independent samples from the UAE were used: one comprised 1,463 undergraduate students at the UAE University, and the other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Questionnaires, Test Validity
López, Daniel A.; Rojas, Maria J.; López, Boris A.; Espinoza, Oscar – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between quality assurance, the traditional "a priori" approach, and a more recently developed empirical classification of universities, as a means of assessing whether the different classification systems fulfill their original purpose. The study analyzes Chilean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Classification, Quality Assurance
Alhamad, Bassam Mohamed; Aladwan, Rama – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: There is no such thing as a truly centralized or decentralized management system. With regard to universities, most of the key areas in universities are centralized, e.g. finance, personnel, curriculum, management and quality. These key areas will exhibit a higher impact on learning and research by maintaining the appropriate balance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Centralization, Administrative Organization, College Administration
Fomunyam, Kehdinga George – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2018
Purpose: This study aims to examine six South African universities with a particular focus on the quality of teaching and learning. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study approach was adopted and data were mainly generated by means of open-ended questionnaires. The questionnaire was circulated to approximately 1,800 students and 746…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Wickham, Sheelagh; Brady, Malcolm; Ingle, Sarah; McMullan, Caroline; Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Mairéad; Walshe, Ray – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: Ideally, quality should be, and is, an integral element of education, yet capturing and articulating quality is not simple. Programme quality reviews in third-level education can demonstrate quality and identify areas for improvement, offering many potential benefits. However, details on the process of quality programme review are limited…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Universities
Davis, Annemarie – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to identify what is needed to enhance academic quality assurance in a university, with specific efforts to reduce the risks associated with ritualised quality assurance practices. Design/methodology/approach: The aspects to enhance academic quality assurance efforts in managerial universities are identified through a…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Universities, Risk, Commercialization
Okyere, Gabriel Asare; Tawiah, Richard; Lamptey, Richard Bruce; Oduro, William; Thompson, Michael – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the differences pertaining to the resources presently accessible for problem-based learning (PBL) among six colleges of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: Data for the study are the cross-sectional type drawn from 1,020 students. Poisson…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Universities, Educational Resources
Subrahmanyam, Annamdevula – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to identify and test four competing models with the interrelationships between students' perceived service quality, students' satisfaction, loyalty and motivation using structural equation modeling (SEM), and to select the best model using chi-square difference (??2) statistic test. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Correlation, Statistical Analysis, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes
Ali, Faizan; Zhou, Yuan; Hussain, Kashif; Nair, Pradeep Kumar; Ragavan, Neethiahnanthan Ari – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Malaysian public universities' service quality on international student satisfaction, institutional image and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach: A total number of 400 questionnaires were distributed to international students, selected using convenience sampling technique, at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Public Colleges, Universities
Teeroovengadum, Viraiyan; Kamalanabhan, T. J.; Seebaluck, Ashley Keshwar – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to develop and empirically test a hierarchical model for measuring service quality in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The first phase of the study consisted of qualitative research methods and a comprehensive literature review, which allowed the development of a conceptual model comprising 53 service quality…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Educational Quality, Validity, Reliability
Lim, Choon Boey; Bentley, Duncan; Henderson, Fiona; Pan, Shin Yin; Balakrishnan, Vimala Devi; Balasingam, Dharshini M.; Teh, Ya Yee – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine issues academics at importing institutions face while delivering Australian degrees in Malaysia. Transnational higher education (TNE) has been widely researched. However, less widely researched is the area of understanding what academics at the offshore locations need to uphold the required academic…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, International Education
Pham, Huong Thi; Starkey, Louise – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: Vietnam is experiencing rapid expansion in the provision of higher education that requires quality assurance appropriate for the Vietnamese-centralised Confucian cultural context. This paper aims to examine the concept of quality from the perspectives of academic leaders, quality assurance members and academics at three higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Universities, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance