Academic quality assurance, historically a national concern, has been evolving rapidly over the last several decades in reaction to the forces of globalization. The first response was the development in many countries of new national models for assuring academic quality in the context of adoption of mass systems of higher education (Brennan and Shah 2000; Dill and Beerkens 2010), which itself w...

some of the criteria for the evaluation and vetting of research articles, are the significance of the study, the need for researching the specified topic, and preparing an appropriate title. academic scholars and research authorities have research useful finding to improve research methods and have set certain standards for selecting topic and preparing appropriate titles for scholarly studies....

The increasing involvement of industry in academic research raised concerns whether university-industry projects actually meet the same academic standards as university projects in-house. Looking at the academic output and impact of collaborative versus non-collaborative Ph.D. projects at Eindhoven University of Technology, we observe – unexpectedly – that doctoral candidates who conducted a co...

About the Authors: Ron Haskins is a senior editor of The Future of Children, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, and a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation; Richard Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Isabel Sawhill is a senior fe...

Progress in using information technology to achieve the goal of high-quality health care is hindered by the lack of coordinated data standards. To accelerate quality improvement in pediatrics, child health providers must participate actively in the creation of health care data standards. To do so will require far greater understanding on the part of pediatricians and other pediatric providers r...

BACKGROUND Although industry sponsors provide approximately 70 percent of the funding for clinical drug trials in the United States, little is known about the legal agreements that exist between industry sponsors and academic investigators. We studied institutional standards regarding contractual provisions that restrict investigators' control over trials. METHODS We used a structured, cross-...

Over the last several decades academic journal articles have become longer and changed in other ways. The review process has also changed – it now often involves extensive revisions of initial submissions. This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. Papers are assumed to vary along two quality dimensions: q and r. The former is interpreted as the importance of a p...