We partner with higher education accreditation agencies and other consultants who work in higher education to develop relevant publications aimed at impacting the quality of higher education. The accreditation resources are available for no-cost download from the site to help promote performance excellence and continuous quality improvement in higher education throughout the world.
Academic Leveling – Case Studies and Data Trends (An Abbreviated Whitepaper)
Academic leveling refers to a process by which students are oriented, or leveled, to a field of study. Leveling modules are intended to provide a foundation of knowledge for students to build upon in their graduate studies. This whitepaper aims to provide an abbreviated understanding of the trends and relationships based on the assessment data associated with the modules used for Academic Leveling. The information within this whitepaper is based on the full-length whitepaper Understanding Academic Leveling.
Assurance of Learning Workbook
Assurance of Learning (AoL) is a systematic and ongoing process that assesses and evaluates student learning outcomes to guarantee educational excellence. Peregrine’s Assurance of Learning Workbook comprehensively covers each aspect of the AoL process, offering valuable insights into best practices, reflection questions, independent exercises, and group activities.
Officials from higher education institutions should be able to apply the content of this workbook by customizing the processes and assessment-related services to their academic institution.
Evaluating & Improving Student Writing: Case Studies and Data Trends
Write & Cite® pushes learners to think about the purpose behind their writing, and provides skills that can make them better written communicators beyond their academic careers. In this paper, we review the effects of Write & Cite® on learners’ understanding of academic writing concepts. Does the early introduction of the expectations and requirements for academic writing, combined with retrieval practice (or quizzing), positively impact student understanding of techniques used to produce quality written assignments? This whitepaper aims to understand trends and relationships based on the aggregated data associated with client schools using the Write & Cite® module to improve student academic writing. This whitepaper also includes case studies from schools using Write & Cite®, demonstrating the module’s effect on student success.
Growing Together: The Give and Take of Healthcare Management Fellowships
This whitepaper features the perspectives of past and present healthcare fellows and preceptors who share what they have given and received from their experiences in a fellowship. It also includes key statistics based on data from CAHME and NCHL.
Charting a New Course: Impact of Covid-19 on Healthcare Management Education
CAHME’s March 2022 whitepaper featured in Modern Healthcare, “Charting a New Course: Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Management Education”, examines the results of a survey of leading academics in healthcare management around the globe along with the opinions of key thought leaders. In this whitepaper, you will discover a roadmap to various initiatives in healthcare management education. The whitepaper is sponsored and co-authored by Peregrine Global Services.
The Use of Summative Assessment to Improve Quality in Business Administration Programs
The assessment of learning outcomes is essential to quality and accreditation. Accreditation agencies require the use of assessment to encourage the continuous quality improvement of the academic programs. Assessment data are used to evaluate learning, see trends over time, and understand change. In Peregrine’s whitepaper on Business Administration (BUS) Assessment, you will find five case studies from schools using our programmatic assessment services, trends and analysis from 10 years of assessment data, and information related to accreditation, best practices, academic benchmarking, and building the quality culture.
The Use of Summative Assessment to Improve Quality in Business Administration Programs Outside the U.S.
The assessment of learning outcomes is essential to quality and accreditation. Accreditation agencies require the use of assessment to encourage the continuous quality improvement of the academic programs. Assessment data are used to evaluate learning, see trends over time, and understand change. In Peregrine’s whitepaper on use of our Business Administration Assessment outside the U.S., you will find case studies, trends and analysis of assessment data, and information related to accreditation, best practices, academic benchmarking, and building the quality culture.
Understanding Academic Leveling – Case Studies and Data Trends
Academic leveling refers to a process by which students are oriented, or leveled, to a field of study. Use of leveling modules is intended to provide a foundation of knowledge for students to build upon in their graduate studies. The purpose of this whitepaper is to understand trends and relationships based on the assessment data associated with the modules used for Academic Leveling. The whitepaper includes cases studies from schools using Peregrine’s modules for academic leveling and the trends in aggregate from all school using the modules for academic leveling.
EvaluSkills: Assessing Soft Skill Learning Outcomes Using 360-degree Assessment Approaches
This whitepaper aims to share a process and results of objectively measuring soft skills using a 360-degree assessment approach. The assessment service used was EvaluSkills: Workplace Skills Assessment. The whitepaper provides insight into soft skills, case studies that illustrate best practices and results, and an analysis of the results.
Healthcare Management Competencies Across the Globe: Responses to COVID-19
Global competence is imperative for supporting initiatives to improve public health. COVID-19 shed a new light on the global healthcare environment, and the need to satisfy the high demands of a crisis today. In this whitepaper, which was co-authored with the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), case studies are presented that illustrate how higher education institutions have adapted to meet the needs of students in amidst the recent global pandemic.
Competency Assessment for Graduate Healthcare Management Programs: Perspectives from the Field
Healthcare and higher education are embracing the use of data for quality improvement. Measurement leads to improvement. Not only does data aid continuous quality improvement in the delivery of care, but it is increasingly used to make sure graduates of accredited programs are prepared to lead the profession. In this whitepaper, which was co-authored with the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), case studies are presented that illustrate various approaches to competency-based assessment, which are applicable to most academic programs in higher education.
Benchmarking for Graduate Healthcare Management Education Programs: Perspectives from the Field
Benchmarking provides organizational leaders with an external standard against which to measure the organization’s own internal or external outcomes, often with the goal of finding ways to improve organizational performance. In this whitepaper, which was co-authored with the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), we describe specific techniques that academic program managers can use to benchmark student and program performance.
Architecting Assessment: Meeting and Exceeding ACBSP Standards with a Design-based Approach
A systematic assessment program is one the most critical issues facing business schools and programs seeking accreditation or reaffirmation. A design-based framework contains the elements to fully address ACBSP Standards and Criteria and allows for a common language of assessment. Developing a shared understanding of the elements of a systematic assessment architecture is also essential to efforts to deliver teaching excellence and creating new knowledge informing better ways to teach.
Bridging the Gap Between Perceived and Actual Quality through Voluntary Accreditation
Voluntary accreditation facilitates the transformation of the academic institution towards a higher level of quality. In this article written for participants at the 12th Annual International Accreditation Conference held in New Delhi India in November 2019, Dr. Olin Oedekoven discusses the impact of quality assurance through voluntary accreditation from the perspective of the customer experience the institution seeks to provide.
