Public Policy for Academic Quality: Analyses of Innovative Policy Instruments

347 Pages·2010·1.56 MB·English

by  David D. Dill

Public Policy for Academic Quality
HIGHEREDUCATIONDYNAMICS
VOLUME30
SeriesEditor
PeterMaassen,UniversityofOslo,Norway,andUniversityofTwente,Enschede,
TheNetherlands
JohanMuller,GraduateSchoolofHumanities,UniversityofCapeTown,
Rondebosch,SouthAfrica
EditorialBoard
AlbertoAmaral,CIPESandUniversidadedoPorto,Portugal
AkiraArimoto,HiroshimaUniversity,Japan
NicoCloete,CHET,Pretoria,SouthAfrica
DavidDill,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill,USA
JürgenEnders,UniversityofTwente,Enschede,TheNetherlands
PatriciaGumport,StanfordUniversity,USA
MaryHenkel,BrunelUniversity,Uxbridge,UnitedKingdom
GlenJones,UniversityofToronto,Canada
SCOPEOFTHESERIES
HigherEducationDynamicsisabookseriesintendingtostudyadaptationprocesses
and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants
to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes.
It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing
theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner
thatisofrelevancetoallthoseprofessionallyinvolvedinhighereducation,beitas
ministers,policy-makers,politicians,institutionalleadersoradministrators,higher
education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges,
orstudents.Itwillincludebothmatureanddevelopingsystemsofhighereducation,
coveringpublicaswellasprivateinstitutions.
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David D. Dill Maarja Beerkens
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Public Policy for Academic
Quality
Analyses of Innovative Policy Instruments
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Editors
Dr.DavidD.Dill Dr.MaarjaBeerkens
UniversityofNorthCarolina UniversityofTwente
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Preface
ThisbookisaproductofthePublicPolicyforAcademicQualityResearchProgram
(PPAQ), a project based in the Department of Public Policy at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The major goal of the Research Program was to
providepolicymakersandotherstakeholdersinhighereducationanalysesofinnova-
tiveacademicqualityassurancepoliciesdesignedtoinfluenceacademicstandards.
These policy analyses attempt to offer assessments of the goals, implementation
problems,andimpactsofthenewqualityassurancepoliciesdevelopedaroundthe
world in as fair-minded and objective a manner as possible, reflecting the larger
public interest. In this volume we have drawn these policy analyses together and
provided commentary on them based on insights drawn from related research and
backgroundpaperspreparedaspartofthePPAQResearchProgram.
We want to express our deep appreciation to the many scholars and doctoral
students who contributed to this project over the years. We especially wish to
acknowledge the very generous support of the Research Program by the Ford
Foundation and to express our grateful thanks to Dr. Jorge Balan formally of the
foundationforhiswiseguidanceandsupport.
Asweanticipatedwhenwebeganthisprojecttheregulationofacademicquality
hasnowbecomeamajornationalandinternationalissueinpublicpolicy.Wehave
no illusions that the contents of this volume will provide the final answers to the
manyquestionsandissuesinvolvedinthisglobaldebate,butwehopethattheevi-
dencewepresentwillhelpinformthedesignofpublicpoliciesthatbettercontribute
tothepublicgood.
ChapelHill,NC,USA DavidD.Dill
Enschede,TheNetherlands MaarjaBeerkens
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
DavidD.DillandMaarjaBeerkens
PartI Professional(Self)RegulationofAcademicQuality
2 ExternalExaminerSystemintheUK:FreshChallengesto
anOldSystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
RichardLewis
3 TheTeacherEducationAccreditationCouncil(TEAC)in
theUSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
ElaineEl-Khawas
PartII MarketRegulationofAcademicQuality
4 TheCHEUniversityRankinginGermany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
MaarjaBeerkensandDavidD.Dill
5 TheUSNationalSurveyofStudentEngagement(NSSE) . . . . . . 83
PeterT.Ewell
6 The Course Experience Questionnaire, Graduate
Destination Survey, and Learning and Teaching
PerformanceFundinAustralia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Kerri-LeeHarrisandRichardJames
7 NationalReportCardonHigherEducationintheUSA . . . . . . 121
DavidW.Breneman
PartIII State(Direct)RegulationofAcademicQuality
8 TheAustralianQualificationsFramework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
CraigMcInnis
9 SubjectBenchmarkingintheUK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
GarethWilliams
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10 SubjectAssessmentsforAcademicQualityinDenmark . . . . . . 183
BjørnStensaker
11 EducationQualityAuditasAppliedinHongKong . . . . . . . . . 203
WilliamF.Massy
12 TheGermanSystemofAccreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
BarbaraM.Kehm
13 TheAccreditationandQualityProcessesoftheGeneral
MedicalCouncilintheUK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
LeeHarvey
14 ContractingforQualityImprovementandFinancingin
PublicUniversitiesofCatalonia,Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
JosepM.VilaltaandJoaquimBrugué
15 TheNationalAssessmentofCoursesinBrazil . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
SimonSchwartzman
16 ReflectionsandConclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
DavidD.DillandMaarjaBeerkens
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Contributors
MaarjaBeerkens CentreforHigherEducationPolicyStudies(CHEPS),
UniversityofTwente,Enschede,TheNetherlands
DavidW.Breneman UniversityofVirginia,Charlottesville,VA,USA
JoaquimBrugué AutonomousUniversityofBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain
DavidD.Dill UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill,NC,USA
ElaineEl-Khawas GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,Washington,DC,USA
PeterT.Ewell NationalCenterforHigherEducationManagementSystems
(NCHEMS),Boulder,CO,USA
Kerri-LeeHarris CentrefortheStudyofHigherEducation,Universityof
Melbourne,VIC,Australia
LeeHarvey, CopenhagenBusinessSchool,Frederiksberg,Denmark
RichardJames CentrefortheStudyofHigherEducation,Universityof
Melbourne,Parkville,VIC,Australia
BarbaraM.Kehm InternationalCentreforHigherEducationResearch
(INCHER),UniversityofKassel,Kassel,Germany
RichardLewis CentreforHigherEducationResearchandInformation(CHERI),
OpenUniversity,London,UK
CraigMcInnis AustralianeducationconsultancyfirmPhillipsKPA,Richmond
Victoria,Australia
WilliamF.Massy BusinessandFinance,StanfordUniversity,USA
SimonSchwartzman InstitutefortheStudyofLaborandSociety(IETS),
RiodeJaneiro,Brazil
BjørnStensaker NIFUSTEP–TheNorwegianInstituteforStudiesof
Innovation,ResearchandHigherEducation,Oslo,Norway
JosepM.Vilalta CatalanAssociationofPublicUniversities(ACUP),
Barcelona,Spain
GarethL.Williams InstituteofEducation,UniversityofLondon,London,UK
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