A carregar...
Publicação
Academics’ perceptions on the purposes of quality assessment
| Nome: | Descrição: | Tamanho: | Formato: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 299.81 KB | Adobe PDF |
Orientador(es)
Resumo(s)
The accountability versus improvement debate is an old one. Although being traditionally
considered dichotomous purposes of higher education quality assessment, some authors
defend the need of balancing both in quality assessment systems. This paper goes a step
further and contends that not only they should be balanced but also that other purposes can be
devised for assessing quality in higher education. Five different purposes are proposed:
communication, motivation, control, improvement and innovation, derived both from the
higher education and the organisational performance literatures. Then the answers given to a
set of questions related to these five intended purposes are analysed. The answers were
collected through a questionnaire designed to investigate Portuguese academics’ perceptions
on higher education quality assessment. Overall the analysis performed reveals a certain
degree of support for all the purposes, albeit higher in the case of the improvement and
communication purposes and lower for control and motivation. Since an adequate
implementation of quality assessment systems needs the support of academics, this paper can
inform the design of systems integrating academics’ views on the subject.
Descrição
Palavras-chave
quality assessment purposes academic staff
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Rosa, Maria J., Cláudia S. Sarrico e Alberto Amaral (2012). Academics’ Perceptions on the Purposes of Quality Assessment. Quality in Higher Education 18(3): 349–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2012.733550
Editora
Taylor & Francis