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Could ‘Criteria’ used in Quality Assessments be Classified as Academic Standards?
Author(s) -
Vries Peter
Publication year - 1996
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/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01701.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , government (linguistics) , quality (philosophy) , higher education , quality assessment , political science , medical education , peer assessment , academic standards , public relations , public administration , psychology , medicine , library science , computer science , law , philosophy , linguistics , engineering education , epistemology
The Higher Education Funding Council for England was given responsibility by the government of the day for assessing the quality of higher education institutions in England. It decided to make subject areas the focus of these quality assessments, within an objectives‐based approach to assessment. Assessments are made by peer subject assessors during visits to institutions. The report postulates that criteria‘other’than the aims and objectives of the institutions and subjects areas were used in the assessments. An analysis was done of reports of the assessments done in 1993–94. The study identifies which criteria were used and argues that these could be labelled as academic standards.