03900nam a22005892u 4500 5583273 BD-DhUL 20160616160803.0 he u||024|||| 080220s1994 xxu ||| b ||| ||eng d 9781878380616 : $18.00 1878380613 : $18.00 0884-0040 ED383279 ERIC ericd eng ericd MvI BD-DhUL 378 GAM mfm Gaither, Gerald. Measuring Up : The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance Indicators in Higher Education. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 5 / Gerald Gaither and Others. Washington, DC : ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, 1994. 159 p. : 23 cm. Availability: ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 630, Washington, DC 20036-1183 ($18 plus $3.75 postage). ericd Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. ericd Contract Number: RR93002008. ericd ERIC Note: For a digest of this report, see HE 028 391. ericd This report examines the development and implementation of performance indicators in higher education, focusing on the factors driving increased demand for accountability in higher education and the use of performance indicators in the United States and other countries. It discusses the public and political concern for increased productivity, accountability, and quality assessment at colleges and universities in the United States and other countries, in light of educational retrenchment and budgetary constraints. It then reviews the use of performance indicators and outcomes measures in the United States, focusing on the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) benchmarking project, the Peterson's/AGB (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges) strategic indicators survey, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) indicators of good practice project, and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) project. It then examines the use of performance indicators in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark. The report concludes by discussing possible future trends in the use of performance indicators by governments and institutions to promote productivity, accountability, and quality in higher education. A list of related publications is included. (Contains approximately 500 references.) (MDM) Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. Accountability. ericd Benchmarking. ericd College Outcomes Assessment. ericd Colleges. ericd Cross Cultural Studies. ericd Educational Policy. ericd Educational Quality. ericd Foreign Countries. ericd Government Role. ericd Higher Education. ericd Institutional Evaluation. ericd Outcomes of Education. ericd Performance Factors. ericd Productivity. ericd Universities. ericd Performance Indicators Australia Canada Denmark Finland Great Britain Netherlands Sweden United States ERIC Publications. ericd Reports, Descriptive. ericd Association for the Study of Higher Education. ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Graduate School of Education and Human Development. http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED383279 ddc BK 78970 78970 0 0 ddc 0 378_000000000000000_GAM 0 NFIC 133095 DUL DUL GEN 2016-06-16 Purchased 378 GAM 363136 2016-06-16 1 2016-06-16 BK