Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education

Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Partner, BH Associates, Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin, Ireland and Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education, Hamish Coates, Tenured Professor, Tsinghua University's Institute of Education, and Deputy Director, Tsinghua University Global Research Centre for the Assessment of College and Student Development, China and Alexander C. McCormick, formerly Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, US

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• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1. Quality, Performance, and Accountability: Emergent Challenges in the Global EraEllen Hazelkorn, Hamish Coates and Alexander C. McCormickPART II OVERARCHING ISSUES AND FRAMING PERSPECTIVES2. Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Quality in Higher EducationLee Harvey 3. Challenges for Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Regulatory TurnRoger King4. Can Public Policy Promote Academic Quality? An Assessment of Policy Instruments for Instruction and ResearchDavid D. Dill5. Goals, Guesses and Gains: Learning Outcomes Policies in Regulatory ActivitiesMary Catharine Lennon6. Perspectives and Advances on Productivity Measurement in Higher EducationWilliam F. Massy and Sandra Archer7. Cross-Border Educational Accountability: Navigating Accountability Expectations when Educational Provision Crosses BordersJason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser and Li Zhang8. Private and For-Profit Higher Education in Europe: Current Patterns and Regulatory ChallengesPedro Nuno Teixeira and Alberto Amaral9. When Intuition Misfires: A Meta-Analysis of Research on Performance-Based Funding in Higher EducationElizabeth Bell, Alisa Hicklin Fryar and Nicholas Hillman10. Accountability In Higher Education: Different Forms, Functions and ForumsJeroen HuismanPART III INDICATORS AND RANKINGS11. Using Indicators in Higher Education Policy: Between Accountability, Monitoring and ManagementMichaela Martin12. Indicators and Global Trends in Higher Education DevelopmentN.V. Varghese13. Understanding and Improving Higher Education Productivity Kenneth Moore, Hamish Coates and Gwilym Croucher14. Comparing and Benchmarking Higher Education SystemsRoss Williams15. Emerging Perspectives on Measuring and Classifying Institutional PerformanceVictor Borden, Hamish Coates and Robert Bringle16. Rankings and Their Impact on Chinese Higher EducationTianli Yang and Nian Cai Liu17. Between Rhetoric and Reality: University Reporting on Academic Research Commercialization, Entrepreneurship and InnovationRobert J.W. Tijssen18. The Impact and Influence of Rankings on the Quality, Performance and Accountability AgendaEllen Hazelkorn and Andrew GibsonPART IV ASSESSING LEARNING AND THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE 19. Performance indicators of learning in Higher Education Institutions: An Overview of the Field Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and Julián P. Mariño20. Global Assessments of Disciplinary Learning Outcomes: What We Learned from AHELOMary Catharine Lennon, Satoko Fukahori and Daniel Edwards21. Quality Efforts at the Discipline Level: Bologna’s Tuning ProcessRobert Wagenaar22. Revisiting Student Performance as a Cornerstone of Higher Education: How is Student Performance Reflected in Performance-Based Funding?Dominic Orr and Alex Usher23. Assuring High-Quality Learning for All Students: Lessons from the FieldGeorge D. Kuh and Natasha A. Jankowski24. What kind of quality assurance leads to improved performance and accountability? The views of European studentsJens Jungblut, Bjørn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic25. The Student Voice in Quality Assessment and ImprovementManja KlemenčičPART V NATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS 26. Fit for Purpose: Intellectual, Political and Operational Struggles in South African Quality AssuranceLis Lange and Francois Strydom27. Towards Building Useful Institutional Reporting Systems for Research and Innovation in African Higher Education: A Lateral View Sibusiso Moyo28. Governing Quality in a Transforming Higher Education System: The Case of ChinaJinghuan Shi, Yan Luo, Wen Wen and Fei Guo29. Quality Assurance of Higher Education in East Asia: Changes, Characteristics and ChallengesFutao Huang30. Quality Assurance and Its Use in Taiwan Higher Education: Implications for Fully Accredited and Non-Fully Accredited InstitutionsAngela Yung-chi Hou31. Funding Reform in Malaysian Public Universities: Examining the Current SituationRussayani Ismail, Chang Da Wan and Yusnidah Ibrahim32. Higher Education Policy in the Philippines: Quality and Quality Assurance for Socioeconomic Development?Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo and Everard Weber33. National Performance Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education: Lessons from AustraliaMarian Mahat and Martin Hanlon34. Lessons from Analysing Failure in Higher Education Policy in AustraliaGwilym Croucher35. Changing Patterns of Accountability in the UK: from QA to TEFRoger Brown36. Exploring the Institutionalization of Quality Assurance in Post-Communist Higher Education Michael Dobbins and Katja Aleksandriyskaya37. Governance Tools to Increase Quality and Diversity in Higher Education: Emerging Trends in NorwayOle-Jacob Skodvin and Stein Erik Lid38. Measurement of Postsecondary Performance in Canada: Moving Beyond Inputs and Funding to Outputs and OutcomesHarvey P. Weingarten and Martin Hicks39. Transforming Quality Assurance in Chilean Higher Education: Development, Reviews and Reform.Emeline Jerez and Christian BlancoPART VI FUTURE DIRECTIONS40. Changing System-Level Conceptualisations of Performance in Higher EducationPeter Noonan41. Emerging Trends in Higher Education Governance: Reflecting on Performance, Accountability and TransparencyIan Austin and Glen A. Jones42. Civic and Regional Engagement and AccountabilityPaul Benneworth and Nadine Zeeman43. Transparency Tools for Higher Education Ben Jongbloed, Hans Vossensteyn, Frans van Vught and Don F. WesterheijdenIndex