The Implementation of Self-Accreditation Policy in Taiwan Higher Education and Its Challenges to University Internal Quality Assurance Capacity Building

Autor/inn/en	Hou, Angela Yung Chi; Kuo, Chao Yu; Chen, Karen Hui Jung; Hill, Christopher; Lin, Shaw Ren; Chih, Jackson Chun-Chi; Chou, Hua Chi
Titel	The Implementation of Self-Accreditation Policy in Taiwan Higher Education and Its Challenges to University Internal Quality Assurance Capacity Building
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 24 (2018) 3, S.238-259 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2018.1553496
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Program Implementation; Accreditation (Institutions); Self Evaluation (Groups); Higher Education; Universities; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Capacity Building; Institutional Autonomy; Outcomes of Education; Educational Policy; Standards; Compliance (Legal); Efficiency; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Institutionelle Autonomie; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Standard; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad
Abstract	In 2012, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education launched a new quality assurance policy entitled 'self-accreditation', aimed at enhancing institutional autonomy, as well as establishing its internal quality review mechanism. In the self-accreditation policy, higher education institutions are encouraged to develop their own quality assurance frameworks based on strategic direction and institutionally specific features. The study adopts qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the impacts and challenges of the 2012 Ministry of Education self-accreditation policy over Taiwanese universities and accrediting bodies. There are three major findings. 1. Self-accreditation policy had positive consequences and outcomes on university's internal quality assurance capacity building. 2. Inappropriate selection processes of reviewers, arbitrary elimination of standards and indicators, inconsistency across review decisions are the challenges that self-accrediting universities encountered. 3. Under the new quality assurance policy, the roles and responsibilities of external quality assurance agencies should be redefined. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01