A Study on Higher Education Evaluation System in Taiwan

Autor: Tsung-Jen Hsu, 許宗仁
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
This study, by adopting the methods of document analysis and field interview, aims to analyze the higher education evaluation system in Taiwan from a macro perspective, and then to compare the program evaluation systems between the universities in the general education sector and the universities in the technological sector. The main conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows: 1.Higher education in Taiwan have moved from the old ‘elite’ pattern to an ‘universal’ pattern. 2.The ‘binary’ system of higher education has resulted in the differences in their educational administration, as well as evaluation system. 3.The role of the government has changed from an ‘initiator’ to a ‘supervisor’, but the government still having direct influence over the universities, through the control over the number of intakes, and the allocation of funding. 4.The higher education evaluation system in Taiwan on the whole has been moving towards more diversified and specialized. 5.The implementation process of higher education evaluation systems in both sectors cover a self-evaluation and site visit by peer experts. 6.The presentation of results of higher education evaluation system varies with the types of evaluation of the two sectors. 7.The higher education evaluation systems for ‘general’ universities and ‘technological’ universities are different in terms of their superior authority, agency, legal basis, and system content. 8.There are similarities and differences in the opinions of the interviewees towards the systems, project, methods and results, etc. in the evaluation of the two sectors.
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