绩效评价:美国提升高等教育质量的重要举措

面对全球高等教育竞争的日益加剧和美国高等教育质量下降的局面,美国政府采取了以绩效评价促进大学质量提升的改革措施,将大学生综合能力考查作为绩效评价的核心内容。为推动高等学校绩效评价的展开,美国政府确定了大学绩效评价的主要内容,扩展了大学绩效评价的社会功能,修订了高等学校质量认证的标准,并开发了多种考评系统等。我国高等学校评价应高度关注学生质量,全面收集学生信息,努力提供社会服务,以提升大学评价的社会应用价值。

Performance Evaluation:An Important Measure to Improve the Quality of American Higher Education

Facing the unceasing aggravation of global higher education competition and the decline in the quality of American higher education, American government has adopted performance evaluation as a reform measure to improve the quality of universities, which takes the comprehensive capability examination of university students as the core content. In order to promote the implementation of performance evaluation in universities, American government has determined the major contents of the evaluation, expanded the social functions of the evaluation, revised the university accreditation standards and developed many student examination systems. As to Chinese university evaluation, we should highly attach importance to the quality of students, collect complete student information, try our best to provide social services and elevate the values of university evaluation in social applications.