Academic Achievement Standards and Quality Assurance

Autor/in	Sadler, D. Royce
Titel	Academic Achievement Standards and Quality Assurance
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 23 (2017) 2, S.81-99 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sadler, D. Royce)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2017.1356614
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; National Standards; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; Grading; Alignment (Education); Educational Objectives; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schulleistung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Notengebung; Schulnote; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Australien
Abstract	Quality assurance processes have been applied to many aspects of higher education, including teaching, learning and assessment. At least in the latter domain, quality assurance needs its fundamental tenets critically scrutinised. A common but inadequate approach has been to identify and promote learning environment changes "likely to improve" learning outcomes. They are simply labelled "quality assurance" without establishing their effectiveness. Part of the problem is that the case for quality assurance has been largely taken as self-evident. Originally, quality assurance principles were developed in domains outside higher education. In those, auditable product, service and other standards play a central role. Although external processes do not directly transfer to higher education, their underlying principles offer perspectives and pointers for reconceptualising quality assurance and improving assessment and grading. Quality assurance should be grounded in authoritative and properly formulated academic achievement standards applied to actual student works, performances and course grades. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01