eprintid: 10019978
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/01/99/78
datestamp: 2014-10-29 10:56:08
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Liu, Shuiyun
title: Impact of the quality assessment of undergraduate education on university change in China
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
note: Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2011.
abstract: This research analyses a higher education quality assessment scheme in China: the
Quality Assessment of Undergraduate Education (QAUE) scheme. It seeks to find out
the impact of the QAUE on university change, and explore the reasons why the
intended changes have or have not been generated in the evaluated universities. In
order to do this, case studies were conducted in three Chinese universities with
different statuses. The data of these cases was collected by means of document
analysis and semi-structured interviews.
The case studies show that, to a certain extent, the QAUE has caused universities to
change in China, but not all the expected changes have been made. The effects on the
various dimensions of quality provisions at different universities were not the same. It
was found that the impact of the QAUE was not a linear consequence of policy
implementation, but the result of an interaction between the external quality
assessment scheme and the evaluated universities. Thus, the impact was not only
determined by the design of the QAUE scheme, but was also related to the
characteristics of the evaluated universities and their initiatives.
Based on the empirical findings from the QAUE and the theories about organisational
change and the operating mechanism of external quality assessment, a model is
proposed to describe how quality assessment interacts with the evaluated universities
and causes them to change. In this model, quality assessment is regarded as being an
external force which brings the external norms of "good" higher education into the
evaluated universities and pushes them to adapt their operations to these norms.
Change will only take place when the external force is integrated with the evaluated
universities' internal motivation and capacity to implement change.
date: 2011
date_type: completed
official_url: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549533
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 276
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Liu, Shuiyun;      (2011)    Impact of the quality assessment of undergraduate education on university change in China.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10019978/1/LIU%2C%20S.pdf