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II. Higher Education, Higher Education Policy (Higher Education Law, Higher Education Organisation, Personnel Structure, Student Body, Educational Assistance, Higher Education Statistics)
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author BORNMANN, L.
Title Quality assurance in higher education : meta-evaluation of multi-stage evaluation procedures in Germany / l. Bornmann, S. Mittag and H.-D. Daniel
Publication year 2006
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 52 (2006) 4, S. 687 - 709
Inventory number 21336
Keywords Qualitätssicherung ; Evaluation ; Lehre
Abstract Systematic procedures for quality assurance and improvement through evaluation have been in place in Western Europe since the mid 1980s and in Germany since the mid 1990s. As studies in Europe and beyond show that multi-stage evaluation procedures as the main quality assurance instrument for evaluation of teaching and learning in higher education institutions have proved reliable and have gained acceptance, in Germany (as well as in other countries) the evaluation of teaching and learning through internal and external evaluations has long come under the fire of criticism. Our results of the first comprehensive and representative investigation of procedures for the evaluation of teaching and learning in Germany show that former participants in the evaluations (reviewers and those reviewed) are satisfied all in all with the multi-stage procedure. They are convinced that the goals of quality assurance and improvement were achieved. Suggestions for improving the procedures target individual aspects, such as, for example, the composition of the review panel. Against this background, it makes sense to perform regular quality assessments of the procedures for quality assurance and improvement. (HRK / Abstract übernommen), Bornmann, L., E-Mail: bornmann@gess.ethz.ch