Evaluation and the decision making process in higher education : French, German and Spanish experiences ; [assembles the participants' main ideas from an OECD Seminar in May 1993]

Interest in evaluating higher education is growing in OECD countries today. This report focuses on evaluation as an essential element of an institutions decision-making processes aimed at improving the quality of activities. It reviews higher education evaluation in France, Germany and Spain - three countries with a common tradition of strong government authority in higher education. The situation is currently changing and the debates on evaluation development demonstrate a common concern that evaluation should be integrated in and enhance the autonomy of higher education institutions. Developments in these countries, as described in an OECD seminar in May 1993, are assembled in this volume. Inhalt: FRANCE 1. Policy of Contracts (Abécassis, Alain: The Policy of Contracts between the State and the Universities. A Quiet Revolution. - Mérindol, Jean-Yves: The Experience of the University Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I). - Bertrand, Gilles: The Experience of Burgundy University). - 2. Evaluation by the National Evaluation Committee (Staropoli, André: Evaluating a French University. - Leduc, Michel: Evaluation by the National Evaluation Committee. The Experience of Le Havre University. - Staropoli, André: Evaluation by the National Evaluation Committee. Reply). - 3. Estimating Universitary Costs (Bornarel, Jean/Levy, Brigitte: The Costs Observatory for Higher Education Institutions. - Bertrand, Gilles: Estimating Student Costs. The Experience of Burgundy University). - SPAIN (Fernandez, Juan/Mateo, Miguel A.: The Circular Evaluative Process of Higher Education - A Spanish Sample. - Abad, Antonio de Juan: The Evaluation of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. - Ferraté, Gabriel/Sola, Francesco: Evaluation and Decision-Making in the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. - Pascual, Pedro: The Evaluation and the Improvement of Quality. - Torner, Nuria Garreta: Experimental Programme to Evaluate the Quality of the University System). - ALLEMAGNE (Müller, Burkhart: Evaluation of University Research by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. - Alewell, Karl: Some Remarks on the Development of Comprehensive Evaluation Systems in the German Higher Education. - Hödl, Erich: Project "Profilbildung" by the German Rectors Conference. - Hödl, Erich: Measures of Reform of Higher Education in Nordrhine-Westfalia. - Kutzler, Kurt: Internal Promotion and Evaluation of Research at the Technical University Berlin). - Cazenave, Philippe: The Challenge of Autonomy. - T ...