Bobbing for Bad Apples: Accreditation, Quantitative Performance Measures, and the Identification of Low-Performing Colleges
| dc.contributor.author | Klasik, Daniel | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hutt, Ethan | en |
| dc.date.accessed | 2019-06-20 | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-02T19:30:47Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-02T19:30:47Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-01 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Recent trends in higher education have increased interest in improving accountability in U.S. higher education beyond current accreditation practices. Using a unique dataset of accreditation actions, the authors examine the relationship between outcomes of the current accreditation system with those of a hypothetical quantitative evaluation system. They find that schools facing accreditation sanctions are, on average, low-performing on the quantitative outcomes. However, using prior accreditation actions to set quantitative-performance benchmarks results in a substantial portion of the higher education sector being implicated. These results suggest that quantitative-performance systems and qualitative accreditation efforts assess distinct, complementary types of institutional quality. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp18-17-v201808.pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92630 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CEPA Working Paper; 18-17 | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | higher education accreditation | en |
| dc.subject | quantitative-performance systems | en |
| dc.subject | quality management in higher education | en |
| dc.title | Bobbing for Bad Apples: Accreditation, Quantitative Performance Measures, and the Identification of Low-Performing Colleges | en |
| dc.type | Working paper | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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