The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions

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Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, S.
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Santiago, R., Sarrico, Cláudia S.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27455
Resumo: Despite being one of the major reasons for the development of quality assessment, students seem relatively unaware of its potential impact. Since one of the main purposes of assessment is to provide students with information on the quality of universities, this lack of awareness brings in to question the effectiveness of assessment as a device for promoting institutional accountability. Aiming to contribute to increase knowledge in this field, the paper addresses Portuguese students’ perceptions of the impact of quality assessment. Resorting to the findings of a qualitative study on this subject, it is argued that students seem to assume a rather ambiguous position vis-à-vis this impact. While seeing assessment as having only a limited capacity to produce changes, students seem reluctant about the possibility of measures being adopted to increase it.
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title The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
spellingShingle The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
Cardoso, S.
higher education
impact
quality assessment
perceptions
Portugal
students
title_short The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
title_full The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
title_fullStr The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
title_full_unstemmed The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
title_sort The impact of quality assessment in universities : Portuguese students’ perceptions
author Cardoso, S.
author_facet Cardoso, S.
Santiago, R.
Sarrico, Cláudia S.
author_role author
author2 Santiago, R.
Sarrico, Cláudia S.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cardoso, S.
Santiago, R.
Sarrico, Cláudia S.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv higher education
impact
quality assessment
perceptions
Portugal
students
topic higher education
impact
quality assessment
perceptions
Portugal
students
description Despite being one of the major reasons for the development of quality assessment, students seem relatively unaware of its potential impact. Since one of the main purposes of assessment is to provide students with information on the quality of universities, this lack of awareness brings in to question the effectiveness of assessment as a device for promoting institutional accountability. Aiming to contribute to increase knowledge in this field, the paper addresses Portuguese students’ perceptions of the impact of quality assessment. Resorting to the findings of a qualitative study on this subject, it is argued that students seem to assume a rather ambiguous position vis-à-vis this impact. While seeing assessment as having only a limited capacity to produce changes, students seem reluctant about the possibility of measures being adopted to increase it.
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