Academics’ perceptions on the purposes of quality assessment
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Resumo: | The accountability versus improvement debate is an old one. Although being traditionally considered dichotomous purposes of higher education quality assessment, some authors defend the need of balancing both in quality assessment systems. This paper goes a step further and contends that not only they should be balanced but also that other purposes can be devised for assessing quality in higher education. Five different purposes are proposed: communication, motivation, control, improvement and innovation, derived both from the higher education and the organisational performance literatures. Then the answers given to a set of questions related to these five intended purposes are analysed. The answers were collected through a questionnaire designed to investigate Portuguese academics’ perceptions on higher education quality assessment. Overall the analysis performed reveals a certain degree of support for all the purposes, albeit higher in the case of the improvement and communication purposes and lower for control and motivation. Since an adequate implementation of quality assessment systems needs the support of academics, this paper can inform the design of systems integrating academics’ views on the subject. |
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Academics’ perceptions on the purposes of quality assessmentquality assessmentpurposesacademic staffThe accountability versus improvement debate is an old one. Although being traditionally considered dichotomous purposes of higher education quality assessment, some authors defend the need of balancing both in quality assessment systems. This paper goes a step further and contends that not only they should be balanced but also that other purposes can be devised for assessing quality in higher education. Five different purposes are proposed: communication, motivation, control, improvement and innovation, derived both from the higher education and the organisational performance literatures. Then the answers given to a set of questions related to these five intended purposes are analysed. The answers were collected through a questionnaire designed to investigate Portuguese academics’ perceptions on higher education quality assessment. Overall the analysis performed reveals a certain degree of support for all the purposes, albeit higher in the case of the improvement and communication purposes and lower for control and motivation. Since an adequate implementation of quality assessment systems needs the support of academics, this paper can inform the design of systems integrating academics’ views on the subject.Taylor & FrancisRepositório da Universidade de LisboaRosa, Maria J.Sarrico, Cláudia S.Amaral, Alberto2023-03-21T14:02:48Z20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27483engRosa, Maria J., Cláudia S. Sarrico e Alberto Amaral (2012). Academics’ Perceptions on the Purposes of Quality Assessment. Quality in Higher Education 18(3): 349–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2012.73355010.1080/13538322.2012.733550info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-04-02T01:34:17Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/27483Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:48:20.293891Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Rosa, Maria J. |
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Rosa, Maria J. Sarrico, Cláudia S. Amaral, Alberto |
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Sarrico, Cláudia S. Amaral, Alberto |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Rosa, Maria J. Sarrico, Cláudia S. Amaral, Alberto |
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quality assessment purposes academic staff |
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quality assessment purposes academic staff |
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The accountability versus improvement debate is an old one. Although being traditionally considered dichotomous purposes of higher education quality assessment, some authors defend the need of balancing both in quality assessment systems. This paper goes a step further and contends that not only they should be balanced but also that other purposes can be devised for assessing quality in higher education. Five different purposes are proposed: communication, motivation, control, improvement and innovation, derived both from the higher education and the organisational performance literatures. Then the answers given to a set of questions related to these five intended purposes are analysed. The answers were collected through a questionnaire designed to investigate Portuguese academics’ perceptions on higher education quality assessment. Overall the analysis performed reveals a certain degree of support for all the purposes, albeit higher in the case of the improvement and communication purposes and lower for control and motivation. Since an adequate implementation of quality assessment systems needs the support of academics, this paper can inform the design of systems integrating academics’ views on the subject. |
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Rosa, Maria J., Cláudia S. Sarrico e Alberto Amaral (2012). Academics’ Perceptions on the Purposes of Quality Assessment. Quality in Higher Education 18(3): 349–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2012.733550 10.1080/13538322.2012.733550 |
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