Towards Blended External Quality Assurance Agencies: A European Experience

Autor/inn/en	Bàguena, Arnau; Huertas, Esther; Casadesus, Marti
Titel	Towards Blended External Quality Assurance Agencies: A European Experience
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 29 (2023) 2, S.208-226 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bàguena, Arnau) ORCID (Casadesus, Marti)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2022.2123271
Schlagwörter	Quality Assurance; Accreditation (Institutions); Higher Education; Institutional Evaluation; COVID-19; Pandemics; Satisfaction; Foreign Countries; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitätssicherung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zufriedenheit; Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Spanien
Abstract	During this pandemic period, many external quality assurance agencies organised their external assessment visits to higher education institutions virtually. This has been an experience that must be valued, determining whether in future it makes sense to continue organising visits virtually or adopting other similar formats. To this end, this article presents the results of a survey carried out among participants in 100 external assessment panels. Four different items have been analysed: satisfaction with different aspects of the virtual site visits, overall satisfaction, the visit of the facilities and the future of virtual visits. The results show that satisfaction with the process is very broad. Moreover, the physical visit to the facilities is still valued very positively. Few statistically significant differences have been found between programme and institutional accreditation processes, which suggests that whatever the future proposal is, it would follow a similar strategy in both cases. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01