Table of contents
Benchmarking academic standards
Mike LaugharneThis article sets the QAA’s approach to benchmarking academic standards within the wider quality assurance context and considers the ways in which subject benchmarking can be…
Growing knowledge about QAA subject benchmarking
Norman JacksonSubject benchmarking developed by the Quality Assurance Agency, provides a good example of a systemic policy that is being introduced in the belief that it will lead to…
Subject benchmarking and the assessment of student learning
Mantz YorkeThis paper analyses the performance criteria and learning objectives contained in the first 22 QAA subject benchmark statements to be published and considers the implications for…
Using QAA subject benchmark information: an academic teacher’s perspective
Warren HoughtonThis paper describes, with examples, the writing of aims and intended learning outcomes for a broad range of engineering degree programmes at various levels including…
An institutional perspective on QAA subject benchmarking
Janet Hargreaves, Alexa ChristouThis paper provides an institutional perspective on the ways in which subject benchmark statements are being and might be used in internal quality assurance processes. The use and…
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- Dr Jeffrey W Alstete
- Dr Heidi Flavian
- Dr Krassie Petrova