The standards and criterions by institutional accreditation of the universities of the United States of America
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Keywords:
higher education, quality assurance, accreditation, standards, criteria,Abstract
The availability of higher education in recent decades has led to an increase in the number of students in higher education institutions and reduction of higher education quality. Accountability of higher education
institutions and quality assurance of higher education have become the subject of heated discussion and debates of a wide range of scholars,politicians and the community in general. One of such popular quality
assurance mechanisms in the world is the accreditation of higher education institutions and educational programs, the founder and leader in this field is the USA. For Kazakhstan, the US experience in the field of institutional accreditation, including the development of standards and criteria,is relevant. The Republic of Kazakhstan considers education and ensuring its quality as one of the leading strategic objectives. It is planned that by 2020, 65% of higher education institutions and 30% of technical and
vocational institutions will undergo independent institutional accreditation.Accreditation will promote Kazakhstan’s integration into the European area of higher education and the mutual recognition of documents on education. Therefore, this article analyzes the standards and criteria of
institutional accreditation of higher education institutions of the USA.
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reviewing petitions and compliance reports. //URL http://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/agency-guidelines.pdf.
Planning Policy Forum.– 2008. //http://www.iiep.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Info_Services_Publications/pdf/2008/
PolForum_20.pdf.
2 George D. Kuh and Peter T. Ewell. The state of learning outcomes assessment in the United States. //Higher Education
Management and Policy. –2010. – № 22/1.– pp. 1-20. //URL http://www.in.gov/che/files/George_Kuh(1).pdf.
3 Joseph B. Berger. Rankings, accreditation, and the international quest for quality. //Quality Assurance in Education. –2014.–
№ 22 (1). – pp. 88-104.
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chea.org/pdf/Condition_US_Accreditation_in_2011.pdf).
5 Kells H.R. National higher education evaluation systems: methods for analysis and some propositions for the research and
policy void //Higher Education Policy. –1999 –№ 38 (2). – pp. 209-232.
6 Указ Президента Республики Казахстан «О Государственной программе развития образования в Республике
Казахстан на 2005-2010 годы» от 11 октября 2004 года N 1459 //URL http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/U040001459_.
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pdf).
8 Соглашение между Правительством Республики Беларусь, Правительством Республики Казахстан, Правительством
Кыргызской Республики, Правительством Российской Федерации и Правительством Республики Таджикистан о взаимном
признании и эквивалентности документов об образовании, ученых степенях и званиях от 24 ноября 1998 год. //http://www.
russia.edu.ru/information/legal/law/inter/agr_1998.
9 U.S. Department of education. Accreditation. Accreditation Agency list. //URL http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Agencies.
aspx).
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developments and future prospects. International institute for educational planning.– Paris.:UNESCO. –2011- 195 p. //URL http://
unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001292/129295e.pdf.
11 Eaton J. U.S. Accreditation: Meeting the Challenges of Accountability and Student Achievement. //Evaluation in Higher
Education– 2011.– № 5 (1). – pp. 1-20 //http://www.chea.org/pdf/EHE51_U%20S%20_Accreditation_Meeting_the_Challenges_of_
Accountability_and_Student_Achievement-Judith_S%20_Eaton.pdf.
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Wiesbaden : VS Research, 2012.- 300 pp.
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of Accreditation in Europe and the United States. Higher Education Management & Policy; 2009, Vol. 21 Issue 3, 23-40 pp.
[Online] Retrieved from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001292/129295e.pdf.
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https://www.ncahlc.org/Criteria-Eligibility-and-Candidacy/criteria-and-core-components.html. Accessed on the 01 May, 2014.
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Higher Education Programs. – 1965. //URL http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.ncher.us/resource/collection/90515964-F9A5-45E4-
83E5-06C2A26E3125/HEA65_CMD.pdf.
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ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/hea08/34cfr602.pdf.
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DC.: CHEA.– 1998 //URL http://www.chea.org/pdf/Recognition_Policy-June_28_2010-FINAL.pdf.
19 Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions. A guide for institutions and evaluators regional accreditation and student
learning. //URL https://www.anokaramsey.edu/resources/pdf/assessment/assessmentguidecrac.pdf.
20 Provezis S. Regional Accreditation and Student Learning Outcomes: Mapping the Territory. //Occasional Paper. – 2010 –
№6. //http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/documents/provezis.pdf.
21 U.S. Department of Education. The Secretary’s Recognition of Accrediting Agencies. //URL http://www2.ed.gov/policy/
highered/reg/hearulemaking/hea08/34cfr602.pdf.
22 U.S. Department of education office of postsecondary education accreditation division (2012). Guidelines for preparing/
reviewing petitions and compliance reports. //URL http://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/agency-guidelines.pdf.
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Assylbekova., A. Z. (2016). The standards and criterions by institutional accreditation of the universities of the United States of America. Journal of Educational Sciences, 46(3). Retrieved from https://bulletin-pedagogic-sc.kaznu.kz/index.php/1-ped/article/view/330
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