Evidence-Based Policy and Higher Education Quality Assurance: Progress, Pitfalls and Promise

Autor/in	Beerkens, Maarja
Titel	Evidence-Based Policy and Higher Education Quality Assurance: Progress, Pitfalls and Promise
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 8 (2018) 3, S.272-287 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2018.1475248
Schlagwörter	Evidence Based Practice; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Stakeholders; Institutional Evaluation; Universities; Curriculum Design + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; University; Universität; Lehrplangestaltung
Abstract	Evidence-based policy has become a norm in the current policy-making rhetoric, affecting also higher education quality assurance. This article agrees with critics that rigorous ex-post impact studies are highly challenging in the field of quality assurance. Nevertheless, there are alternative ways how evidence can effectively guide quality assurance policies and how evidence-based mentality can be encouraged by government policies. A more realistic view on how evidence informs policies (indirectly and via stakeholders' arguments) and how professionals incorporate evidence in their work (selectively and next to other information sources) broadens the scope for useful evidence for higher education quality assurance. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01