Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education in China: Impact on Different Universities

Autor/in	Liu, Shuiyun
Titel	Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education in China: Impact on Different Universities
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 66 (2013) 4, S.391-407 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-013-9611-2
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Study; Quality Assurance; Quality Control; Educational Quality; Universities; Institutional Characteristics; Higher Education; Case Studies; Audits (Verification); Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Program Implementation; Alignment (Education); Educational Change; Organizational Change; Change Strategies; Organizational Culture; Barriers; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grundstudium; Qualitätssicherung; Qualitätskontrolle; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; University; Universität; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Organisationswandel; Lösungsstrategie; Unternehmenskultur; Ausland
Abstract	This research analyzes the scheme proposed to assess the quality of higher education institutions in China, namely, the Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education (QAUE) scheme. This article aims to determine the impact of the QAUE on universities and explore the reasons that intended effects have or have not been generated in the evaluated universities by conducting case studies of three Chinese universities with different statuses. The empirical studies show the effects on the various dimensions of quality provisions at different universities were not the same. It was found that the impact of the QAUE was not a linear consequence of policy implementation, but the result of an interaction between the external quality assessment scheme and the evaluated universities. Quality assessment is regarded to be an external force to cause universities to change. This empirical study of the QAUE shows that changes will only take place when the external force is integrated with the evaluated universities' internal motivation and capacity. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10