A Study of Quality Assurance Systems with International Validity and Currency-The States of University Evaluation in USA, EU and Nippon (Japan)-

本项目旨在调查日本、美国和欧洲的大学评估体系，以确定日本评估体系未来的挑战。在两年内，我们进行了以下三项研究。一是从国际有效性的角度考察日本现行大学评价制度。我们历史地考察了从引进“自我监测和评估”到建立NIAD-UE，再到新的评估体系（Ninsyou hyouka）的评估体系的转变，并讨论了NIAD-UE实验评估的方法。第二部分是对美国大学评估制度的考察，美国大学评估制度被认为是大学评估制度的典范之一。首先，我们回顾了大学评估的总体结构，包括最近在各州引入的绩效指标，质量保证管理和教师评估系统。同时，我们也关注了为大学决策而收集校内外信息的组织，这就是所谓的机构研究。我们还调查了国家教育统计（NCES）的组织，IR必须提供其大学的信息。三是对欧洲近期形成的评价体系的研究。它详细研究了如何高等教育体系是在1999年博洛尼亚宣言后在欧洲发生变化。在科研评价方面，英国的科研评价体系是最著名的体系之一，本文考察了英国的科研评价体系的评价方法和近期关于科研评价体系改革的讨论。通过对日本、美国和欧洲的研究，我们讨论了日本新的大学评估和质量保证体系未来面临的挑战。

This project aimed to investigate the university evaluation systems in Japan, US and Europe to identify the future challenge for Japanese evaluation system. In two years, we conducted the following three studies. One is the investigation of today's Japanese university evaluation system from the point of international validity. We historically examined the transition of evaluation system from introduction of the "self-monitoring and evaluation", through the establishment of NIAD-UE, to new evaluation system (Ninsyou hyouka), and discuss the methods of NIAD-UE experimental evaluation. Second is the investigation of evaluation system in US, which is considered as one of the model of university evaluation system. At first, we reviewed the overall structure of university evaluation in several levels including the recent introduction of performance-indicators in states, management on quality-assurance, and faculty evaluation system. Also we focused on the organization to collect the information inside and outside of university for decision making in university, which is called Institutional Research (IR). And we investigated the organization of national education statistics (NCES), which IR have to provide their universities' information. Third is the study on the recent formation of evaluation system in Europe. It is investigated in detail how the higher-education system is changing in Europe after the Bologna Declaration in 1999. Also on research evaluation, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in UK is one of the most famous system and we investigated its method and recent discussion to reform the system in UK. By these studies in Japan, US and Europe, we discuss the future challenge of Japanese new systems of university evaluation and quality assuarance.