Analysing instrument mixes in quality assurance: The Czech and Slovak accreditation commissions in the era of mass higher education

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2014.890773" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2014.890773</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2014.890773" target="_blank" >10.1080/13538322.2014.890773</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysing instrument mixes in quality assurance: The Czech and Slovak accreditation commissions in the era of mass higher education

Original language description

Utilising insights from policy instrument theory, the article analyses the design, functioning and effects of the tools used by the Czech Accreditation Commission (CAC) and the Slovak Accreditation Commission (SAC) in the 2000s. Aside from programme accreditation, the other tools analysed are: institutional approval, institutional evaluations, evaluations of accredited activities and complex accreditations. Czech and Slovak programme accreditation is empirically evidenced to be very burdensome and havelimited effectiveness. The commissions? evaluative activities reveal some inconsistency of recommendations and missing follow-ups. Overall, the analysis suggests that the spillover effects of on-site evaluations on accreditation verdicts are likely to limit long-term improvement intra-institutionally, causing inconsistency of the instrument mix applied by the CAC and the SAC. Due to these design discrepancies, the change-over from programme accreditation to quality audit, resulting in an

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quality in Higher Education

ISSN

1353-8322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

183-202

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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