Comparing Educational Accreditation Standards in Selected Professional Fields

Content analysis revealed that specialized accreditors include few explicit educational outcome statements in published standards. An exploratory comparison of differentially explicit agencies based on independently derived faculty views about outcome emphasis and accrediting rigor indicated that mo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of higher education (Columbus) 1989-01, Vol.60 (1), p.1-20
Hauptverfasser: Hagerty, Bonnie M. K., Stark, Joan S.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Content analysis revealed that specialized accreditors include few explicit educational outcome statements in published standards. An exploratory comparison of differentially explicit agencies based on independently derived faculty views about outcome emphasis and accrediting rigor indicated that more experience and firmer data are needed to judge the impact of explicit standards.
ISSN:0022-1546
1538-4640
DOI:10.1080/00221546.1989.11778821