Do Academic Disciplines Matter? An Analysis of Organizational Responses to the Accreditation of Graduate Programs by Field of Study and Sector

Autor/in	Salto, Dante J.
Titel	Do Academic Disciplines Matter? An Analysis of Organizational Responses to the Accreditation of Graduate Programs by Field of Study and Sector
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 84 (2022) 3, S.569-587 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Salto, Dante J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-021-00789-2
Schlagwörter	Intellectual Disciplines; Accreditation (Institutions); Graduate Study; Foreign Countries; Private Sector; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geisteswissenschaften; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Ausland; Privater Sektor; Qualitätssicherung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Argentinien
Abstract	Accreditation in higher education has become omnipresent and, on many occasions, has been used as a synonym for quality assurance. The establishment of accreditation agencies as a worldwide phenomenon, however, is relatively recent in the history of higher education. Through a predominantly qualitative approach, this paper aims to analyze how programs from different academic disciplines perform in terms of the accreditation of graduate programs in Argentina and how different programs respond to the same accreditation process. Additionally, it analyzes the performance of private sector programs. As expected, academic disciplines play a vital role in the accreditation process, programmatic performance, and responses to this quality assurance mechanism while sector may not play a vital role. Surprisingly, soft pure programs perform better than both hard and soft applied programs. The results highlight the importance of considering both the paradigm (hard or soft) and level application (pure or applied) when analyzing the role of academic disciplines in higher education studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01