Impact Analysis of External Quality Assurance Processes of Higher Education Institutions (9880)

There are several achievements to the project: Development and application of a comprehensive methodology of IA of EQA procedures in HEIs which is flexible to be adjusted to different kinds of EQA procedures; simultaneity of the IA with baseline study and before-after comparison (quasi-experimental design); integrated incorporation of all members and students of the HEIs in the IA; analysis and comparison of the impacts of different EQA procedures as well as of the various actors's perception of and judgement on EQA procedure impacts; analysis of the role of EQA procedures in changing and improving the support (and core) processes of HEIs; improvement of the understanding of the causal relationship between QA and organisational change; active and participative cooperation of several European HEIs; future cooperation of several European QA agencies and HEIs (e.g., bench marking in QA practice and in quality management).