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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author BEERKENS, Maarja
Title Evidence-based policy and higher education quality assurance: progress, pitfalls and promise / Maarja Beerkens
Publication year 2018
Source/Footnote In: European journal of higher education. - 8 (2018) 2, S. 272 - 287
Inventory number 47211
Keywords Qualitätssicherung ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein
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..(HRK / Abstract übernommen)