Higher Education Accountability

Higher Education Accountability
Author: Robert Kelchen
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1421424738

Beginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, the author reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical development of how US federal and state policies, accreditation practices, private-sector interests, and internal requirements have become so important to institutional success and survival

Accountability in Higher Education

Accountability in Higher Education
Author: Bjorn Stensaker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136932364

The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public about higher education performance and to help transform universities and colleges and improve their functioning. This edited collection provides a comparative analysis of the promises, perils and paradoxes of accountability, and the potential effect on power structures and higher education autonomy, trust and the legitimacy of the sector. Part I describes how accountability is perceived and understood in different regions of the world, identifies some of the most common elements in established accountability initiatives, especially related to quality assurance, and provides direction for possible future development. Part II focuses on responses to new demands for accountability at institutional, national and international levels, and provides practical guidance for handling accountability going forward, emphasizing the dynamic relationship between international development, government strategies and organizational change. This volume is a must-have resource for HE managers, administrators, policy makers, researchers, HE graduate students and those interested or involved with HE accountability practices.

Accountability in American Higher Education

Accountability in American Higher Education
Author: K. Carey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230115306

In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.

Achieving Accountability in Higher Education

Achieving Accountability in Higher Education
Author: Joseph C. Burke
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

With contributions from leading experts in the field, this comprehensive and timely book presents the principles and guidelines for effective accountability for states, colleges, and universities. Achieving Accountability in Higher Education clarifies the concept of accountability for both public and private colleges and universities and explores its reaches and limits. The book examines the most recent developments, offers current models for each of the major approaches to accountability, and analyzes their shortcomings.

Measuring College Learning Responsibly

Measuring College Learning Responsibly
Author: Richard Shavelson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0804761205

This book examines current practices in assessment of learning and accountability at a time when accrediting boards, the federal government and state legislatures are requiring higher education to account for such outcomes as student retention, graduation, and learning.

Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education

Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education
Author: Gary Orfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781682531488

Addresses the unforeseen impact of accountability standards on students of colour and the institutions that disproportionately serve them. The book describes how federal policies can worsen existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers alternative solutions aimed to protect and advance civil rights for low-income and minority students and their colleges.

Accountability in Higher Education

Accountability in Higher Education
Author: Peter Sheldrake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429844468

Originally published in 1979 Accountability in Higher Education contains the first comprehensive analysis of accountability in Australian higher education. The contributors systematically examine organisation and practice in the Australian higher education system, major issues relating to the accountability movement, and possible future developments arising from these issues. The authors look in turn at the various levels of organisation and accountability within the higher education system – Federal, State, sector, institution and individual – and in so doing provide the most comprehensive coverage possible of the major issues of concern. The book provides a detailed analysis that will be of particular interest to teachers, administrators and educational researchers.

Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses

Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses
Author: Priscilla Toka Mmantsetsa Marope
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9230011568

The growing impact of university rankings on public policy and on students choices has stirred controversy worldwide. This unique volume brings together the architects of university rankings and their critics to debate the uses and misuses of existing rankings. With voices from five continents, it provides a comprehensive overview of current thinking on the subject and sets out alternative approaches and complementary tools for a new era of transparent and informed use of higher education ranking tables.

The States and Public Higher Education Policy

The States and Public Higher Education Policy
Author: Donald E. Heller
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 142140477X

Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues. As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state funding for higher education dwindles, policymakers confront issues of affordability within state and institutional budgets. Changing demographics and challenges to affirmative action complicate the admissions process even as colleges and universities seek to diversify enrollments. And issues of institutional accountability have forced the restructuring of higher education governing boards and a reexamination of the role of public trustees in governance. This collection analyzes how issues of affordability, access, and accountability influence the way in which state governments approach, monitor, and set public higher education policy. The contributors examine the latest research on pressing challenges, explore how states are coping with these challenges, and consider what the future holds for public postsecondary education in the United States.

Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education

Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education
Author: Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807759317

"1. The book offers teacher educators and stakeholders an overview of accountability in the era of education reform and embraces teacher education accountability as a lever for reconstructing its targets, purposes, and consequences in keeping with the larger democratic project. 2. The book introduces a framework, eight dimensions of accountability, for interrogating dimensions of accountability policy and practice by revealing an accountability initiative's operation but also exposing underlying values and principles, theory of change, and relationship to larger political and policy agendas. 3. Using the authors' framework, eight dimensions of accountability, the book deconstructs four of the most visible education reform initiatives relevant to teacher educators and education stakeholders. The book proposes a rallying call to teacher educators and stakeholders to reclaim accountability using a new approach: democratic accountability in teacher education" --