Evaluating Higher Education. Papers from the International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

This book contains 24 essays addressing higher education evaluation and published in the International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education between 1979 and 1986. They are as follows: "The Evaluation of Higher Education: An Introductory Note" (Maurice Kogan); "Allocation of Public Funds on Instructional Performance/Quality Indicators" (Grady Bogue); "Northeast Missouri State University's Value Added Assessment Program: A Model for Educational Accountability" (Charles J. McClain et al.); "Assessment of Institutional Effectivesness at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville" (Trudy W. Banta et al.); "A Commentary on the Northeast Missouri and Tennessee Evaluation Models" (Marianne Bauer); "Improvement of Education through Internal Evaluation (AMOS)" (Pieter J. D. Drenth et al.); "A Preliminary Assessment of a New Method of Course Evaluation Based on Directed Small Group Discussions" (Robert W. Talbot and Georges Bordage); "Institutional Self Evaluation in Sweden" (Ann-Marie Furumark); "Assessing Institutional Performance: The Importance of Being Careful," (Leonard C. Romney et al.); "The Second Irony: The System of Institutional Evaluation in the United States" (H. R. Kells); "Institutional Performance Assessment Under Conditions of Changing Needs" (John Sizer); "Le Comite National d'Evaluation. An Innovation in French Higher Education" (Andre Staropoli); "Academic Program Review and the Determination of University Priorities" (Frederick E. Balderston); "Peer Review and Partnership: Patterns of Validation in the Public Sector of Higher Education in the United Kingdom" (John Brennan); "A Ten Year Perspective on Faculty Evaluation" (Richard I. Miller); "Evaluating Basic Units: Seven Fundamental Questions" (Rune Premfors); "Methods for the Evaluation of Research" (Michael Gibbons); "Resource Allocation Based on Evaluation of Research" (Michael Gibbons); "Resource Allocation Based on Evaluation of Research" (Rune Fransson); "Evaluation and Funding of University Research: Where Does the Need Lie?" (Jean Marie Archambault); "Excellence Versus Relevance: The Evaluation of Research" (Mary Henkel); "The Use of Bibliometric Data as Tools for University Research" (H. F. Moed et al.); "A Case Study on the Evaluation of Research at the Technical University of Denmark" (Peter Rasmussen); "The Evaluation of Research: An Economic Process" (Anne M. T. Rouban); and "External Assessment of Dutch Research Programmes" (Jack Spaapen). Contains 207 references and an index. (GLR)