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Quality Assessment in Higher Education: the Scottish Experience
Author(s) -
Sharp Stephen,
Munn Pamela,
Paterson Lindsay
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2273.00048
Subject(s) - quality assessment , quality (philosophy) , higher education , perception , subject (documents) , educational assessment , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , political science , external quality assessment , library science , medicine , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , neuroscience , law
Quality assessment has been a feature of higher education in Scotland for the academic years from 1992 to 1996. As part of a review of its quality assessment procedures, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council commissioned a survey of perceptions of the process, both amongst those involved in conducting the assessment and those subject to it. The aims of this paper are firstly to present the profile of opinion amongst 366 respondents to the questionnaire and secondly to investigate whether any patterns are discernible within this group by examining whether TQA is viewed differently by different constituencies within the academic community. Implications for the future direction of quality assessment are discussed.