Grading: harmonising standards and stakeholder expectations

19. Improving Student Readiness: Examining K-16 Alignment of Content and Performance Standards

“…It appears that postsecondary institutions are mindful of establishing elements of consistency and implementing standardized practices when it comes to teaching and evaluating students as evident by the scholarly research recently produced (Choy & Lidstone, 2011;Cizek & Bunch, 2007;Harman & McDowell, 2011;Yorke, 2011). Manitoba's institutions of higher learning should be aware of the issues and trends surrounding assessment and consider the practices and policies discussed and implemented in both secondary and tertiary learning.…”

Lost in the Process: How Stakeholders View the Quality of Public Universities in Croatia?

“…In higher education, quality is an ambivalent and value-burdened term (Harvey & Green, 1993;Maguire & Gibbs, 2013) and therefore sought to be more precisely defined through its evaluation procedures. Due to this reason, the concept of quality that is promoted through valuation should be analysed and defined with regard to stakeholders in the system of higher education and science, meaning: potential students, students, institutions, employees at higher education institutions, employers and financers (Blanco-Ramírez & Berger, 2014;Choy & Lidstone, 2011;Urbanovič & Wilkins, 2013).…”