【作者】 侯静；

【导师】 陈时见；

【作者基本信息】 西南大学 ， 比较教育学， 2008， 硕士

【摘要】 美国的高等教育认证体系历史悠久,理论和实践研究水平较高,在政府和市场双重规范下,已经比较成熟,为保证和提高美国高等教育质量做出了巨大贡献。美国对高等教育的质量保障主要通过认证(accreditation)来进行。简单来说,认证是一个以院校自我评估和同行评价为基础、以满足社会责任和提高学术质量为目的的过程。认证是一种民间行为,分为院校认证与专业认证,其中,院校认证又分为地区性院校认证和全国性院校认证,分别由不同类型的民间组织来实施。此外,还有一个负责对认证机构进行认可的民间组织——高等教育认证委员会(CHEA)。美国高等教育认证体系中的民间组织具有独立性、自治性、多样性等特征,对保障和提高高等教育质量发挥了不可替代的重要作用。目前,我国高等教育评估中介机构存在行政依附性过强、权威性不够等问题,借鉴美国经验,对推进我国高等教育评估中介机构的发展无疑具有重大意义。论文选取了美国高等教育认证体系中的民间组织为研究对象,并深入分析了不同认证类型中典型的民间组织及其运行方式、作用、特点等。论文共分为六个部分:第一部分引论首先阐述了研究缘起,对国内外研究现状进行了综述,并分析了论文研究的整体框架与思路;第二部分介绍了美国高等教育认证的体系及类型,并在每一种类型(院校认证、专业认证、认证机构再认证)中选取一个代表性的民间组织(南部院校协会、教育学院认证委员会、高等教育认证委员会)重点分析其组织结构、认证标准和认证程序;第三部分通过对以上三类民间组织的分析得出美国高等教育认证中民间组织的特点及存在的主要问题;第四部分重点探讨民间组织在美国高等教育质量认证中的作用;第五部分对我国的高等教育评估中介机构发展情况进行了介绍,并分析了存在的主要问题,最后借鉴美国的经验对我国的高等教育评估中介机构提出思考与建议。更多还原

【Abstract】 The US’s quality accreditation system of higher education has a long history, and its theoretical and practical research level is very high. Under the government and the market dual criterions, it has already developed much more mature and made tremendous contribution to assurance and improve American higher education quality. America has assured the higher education quality mainly through accreditation. Accreditation is a kind of folk behavior. It is divides into regional institutional accreditation, national institutional accreditation and specialized accreditation, which implements separately by the different type folk organizations. In addition, it also has a folk organization-Council for Higher Education Accreditation, which is responsible for the accreditation organization. The folk organization of higher education accreditation system in America has the characteristics of independence, autonomy, variety, etc. It has played an important role to the higher education quality, which could not be substituted. At present, our country’s intermediary institution of higher education evaluation exists a series of problems, such as excessively administration anaclisis, insufficient authority, and so on. From using the US’s experience for reference, it will have the great significance without doubt to advance our country’s intermediary institution of higher education evaluation.The paper has selected the folk organization of higher education quality accreditation system in America as the object of study, and has thoroughly analyzed folk organization’s work way, characteristics and influence to the American higher education. The paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter elaborates the reason of the research, and analyses the present research situation at home and abroad, and points out the overall frame and thought in this paper; The second chapter introduces the type of the American higher education accreditation, and selects a representative folk organization(Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Council for Higher Education Accreditation) in each kind of type (institutional accreditation, specialized accreditation and re-evaluation) to analyzes its organizational structure, accreditation standards and the accreditation procedure; The third chapter analyzes the folk organization’s characteristics and the existing main questions; The fourth chapter discusses the American folk organization’s important roles that has played in higher education accreditation of America; The fifth chapter has introduced the development situation of our country’s intermediary institution of higher education evaluation, and analyzed the existing main problems, and finally proposed the ponder and the suggestion to our country’s intermediary institution of higher education evaluation from US’s experience.更多还原