Mounir Bouhifd 1, Richard Beger 2, Thomas Flynn 3, Lining Guo 4, Georgina Harris 1, Helena Hogberg 1, Rima Kaddurah-Daouk 5, Hennicke Kamp 6, Andre Kleensang 1, Alexandra Maertens 1, Shelly Odwin-DaCosta 1, David Pamies 1, Donald Robertson 7, Lena Smirnova 1, Jinchun Sun 2, Liang Zhao 1 and Thomas Hartung 1, 8 1Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Alternatives...

The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview and critique of Quality Assurance (QA), its role, function and effectiveness as practised and researched in education organisations. To place contemporary QA in its historical context, some well-trodden ground will be revisited. There is nothing new about government and other authorities’ inspectorial interest (some of it demeaning) in the effe...

This paper commences with a detailed Software Inspection is a method of static testing to discussion of the problems and difficulties associverify that software meets its requirements. It enated with software testing. It is shown that large gages the developers and others in a formal process software systems are so complex that software comof investigation that usually detects more defects in p...

quality assurance as a comprehensive term encompasses all policies, processes and actions maintaining and developing higher education quality. quality assurance emphasizes on external goals of evaluation, one of which is to assure learners, public and government that each unit, department, program or institution manages its quality. thus quality assurance focuses on accountability. this article...

Big data has the features like Volume, Variety, Value and Velocity. Here come the new opportunities and challenges for construction of Chinese quality assurance system of higher vocational education under big data era. There are problems in current quality assurance system of higher vocational education, such as imperfect main body, non-formation of internally and externally incorporated qualit...