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Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

  • Presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in twenty European countries

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 5)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows the Accreditation Trend

    • Margarita Jeliazkova, Don F. Westerheijden
    Pages 323-345
  3. Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends

    • Ewa Chmielecka, Marcin DÄ…browski
    Pages 371-393
  4. A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish Universities

    • José-Ginés Mora
    Pages 421-443

About this book

This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kassel, Germany

    Stefanie Schwarz

  • University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Don F. Westerheijden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

  • Editors: Stefanie Schwarz, Don F. Westerheijden

  • Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2797-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2796-3Published: 29 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5537-9Published: 17 March 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2797-0Published: 13 June 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 495

  • Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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