Assessing student learning in ways that offer students, institutions and systems with sound
information is a considerable challenge for higher education. Despite demonstrable …

T HIS paper argues that, despite an increasing uniformity of approach to quality monitoring,
there is little analysis of the rationale behind the methods because there is little exploration …

Reliability is important in the academic judgements that higher education institutions pass to
employers, graduate schools and other stakeholders. However, there are well-known limits …

In a climate of growing accountability for Higher Education, there is an increased demand on
assessment to play an evaluative role. National, professional and institutional quality …

Assessment is one of the most controversial issues in higher education today. Guidelines
and principles abound. The UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and …

There remains a lack of published empirical data on the substantive outcomes of higher
learning and the establishment of quality processes for determining them. Studies that do …

A collaborative research project conducted by five Australian universities inquired into the
philosophy and motivation for Assurance of Learning (AoL) as a process of education …

As the principles and practices of quality assurance are further implanted in higher
education, methodological questions about how to understand and manage quality become …

Assessment and giving feedback to learners is one of the six specified areas of activity, core
knowledge and professional values articulated in the UK Professional Standards Framework …

Many performance indicators in Australian higher education are based on the quantitative
data from student feedback surveys, while the qualitative data usually generated by these …