Localizing Quality Audit in Chinese Higher Education Institutions

Analysis of Factors from Organizational Sociology Perspective

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.094How to use a DOI?

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Institution-Led Review; Localization; Quality Assurance; Tertiary Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The massive rise of Chinese students in the higher education sector has uncovered a fundamental tension between the expansion of student enrolment and efforts to maintain academic quality. Quality Audit is one of the external quality assurance schemes that is particularly attracting concerns about its organisational tactics, implementation methodologies, and possible impacts. The semi-structured interview was conducted at an application-oriented institution with organizational sociology serving as the analytical framework. The goal of the interview was to investigate the influence of the quality audit on localization. This case study, which was based on University Q, concluded that the present policies witness decoupling in areas such as curriculum teaching, assessments of student learning, and quality assurance. The above-mentioned decoupling phenomena are affected by a variety of factors, including institutional legitimacy, sources of pressure, institutional content, monitoring systems, and organizational context. The present research aims to gain a more in-depth understanding of the previously established theoretical framework. Future research hopes to concentrate on the phenomenon of path innovation in higher education institutions in order to contribute new insights to the localization-related theories of institutional-led review for tertiary teaching and learning.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bojun Zou
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - Localizing Quality Audit in Chinese Higher Education Institutions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 515
EP  - 518
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.094
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.094
ID  - Zou2022
ER  -