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Quality Management in Higher Education: the Experience of Canada

2018· article· en· W2887702472 on OpenAlex
Faina Lazarevna Ratner, N.V. Tikhonova, Natal'ya Tihonova

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueStandards and Monitoring in Education · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHigher Education Governance and Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuality (philosophy)Higher educationQuality assuranceBusinessProcess (computing)Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)Public relationsPolitical scienceQuality managementMarketingComputer science

Abstract

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The article examines the Canadian experience in the fi eld of education quality management, where the eff ectiveness of the whole system is provided by active cooperation of multiple actors of educational policy at all levels: international, national, regional and institutional. Of particular interest is the analysis of specifi c initiatives implemented at each level and ways to ensuring their coherence. A brief overview of quality assurance agencies monitoring and controlling the higher education sector in whole, the universities and the educational programs, is off ered. Despite the signifi cant heterogeneity of the university sector of Canada due to the administrative, territorial and cultural diff erences, the coordinated actions of all participants of the educational process contribute to cooperation between universities, ensure mutual recognition of diplomas both in Canada and internationally, and create conditions for students’ and graduates’ mobility.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.309
Threshold uncertainty score0.798

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.367 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it