Monitoring Change: Evaluating Institutions with Off-Campus Programs

• Published in: North Central Association Quarterly Vol. 53; no. 3; p. 367
• Main Author: Thrash, Patricia A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: Accreditation (Institutions); Accrediting Agencies; Educational Change; Educational Quality; Evaluation Methods; Higher Education; Institutional Evaluation; Nontraditional Education; Off Campus Facilities; Postsecondary Education; Sequential Approach; Summative Evaluation; Surveys; Validated Programs

Monitoring educational change is seen as a critical problem for regional accrediting commissions. The response by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association to the problem is described, and procedures to validate educational quality in off-campus programs and...