Study on the newly inaugurated higher education policies concerning student learning outcomes: its impact on accreditation process

本研究项目主要阐明了美国联邦政府新出台的高等教育政策的三个方面：1）基于学习结果的评估政策并不一定源于联邦政府的直觉;这是现行质量保证体系模糊的产物，现行质量保证体系主要是通过认证制度来实施的，2）认证机构根据联邦要求，在与其原始认证标准/准则分开的条款中引入了质量规定，3）一些新的联邦质量保证政策被认证机构/高等教育机构认为不太可行。

This research project primarily clarified three aspects of the newly inaugurated higher education policy of the US federal government: 1) The policy of learning-outcome-based evaluation does not necessarily originate from the federal intuition: it was rather an offspring of the equivocation of current quality assurance system which had been largely carried out with accreditation system, 2) Accreditation bodies have introduced qualitative regulations in accordance with the federal request in provisions separate from their original standards/criteria of accreditation, 3) Some of new federal policies on quality assurance has been deemed to be less feasible by accreditors/higher education institutions.