| Titre : | Accreditation in the USA : origins developments and future prospects |
| Auteur(s) : | Elaine EL-KHAWAS |
| Type de document : | Texte |
| Éditeur(s) : | Paris : UNESCO. IIPE : Institut international de planification de l'éducation |
| Année de publication : | 2001 |
| Description : | 195 p. |
| Langue(s) : | Anglais |
| Résumé : | In the United States, quality assurance has a long record of experience, extending back to the early twentieth century. This publication reviews the accreditation experience in the United States in some details. It emphasizes the choices made by accrediting agencies at different times on how to conduct evaluations and what standards to use. A case study illustrates one university's experiences with the accreditation process. Attention is also given to the broader question of co-operation between accreditation and government, the effect of accrediting requirements on the ways that universities function, and the arguments that can be made about accreditation's overall role and impact. It also reviews early steps taken by US accrediting agencies to address the issues of educational quality that are raised by the rapidly expanding role of information technology. As this book demonstrates, the underlying issues encountered when shaping an effective system of quality assurance for higher education are much the same in differing times and places. This account of how accreditation was developed in the United States offers rich lessons for today, when all countries face new challenges and have to find new ways of strengthening their systems of higher education. [Résumé éditeur] |
| Sujet(s) : | , assurance qualité, enseignement supérieur, qualité de l'éducation, qualité de l'enseignement, accréditation, agence d'évaluation, assurance qualité externe |
| Zone(s) géographique(s) : | États-Unis |
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