A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Clasp: the Development of an Assessment Tool for Undergraduate Business Student in the United Arab Emirates
Authors: Nickerson Catharine, Goby Valerie Priscilla
Conference name: International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Publication year: 2011
Book title : INTED2011 Proceedings
Journal name in source: INTED2011: 5TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
First page : 5698
Last page: 5701
Number of pages: 4
ISBN: 978-84-614-7423-3
ISSN: 2340-1079
Abstract
In the course of the past decade, Quality Assurance in Education has become a major factor in higher education. The need to obtain accreditation, supported by appropriate assessment procedures, is now a fact of life for many of those involved with higher education around the globe. For programmes in Business Administration and Management in particular, the accreditation provided by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) remains perhaps the best known global quality assurance programme, and therefore the most sought after. This paper focuses on the efforts made at a university business school in the Gulf Region to develop an assessment tool to evaluate the communication skills of undergraduate students pursuing a Business Sciences degree, as part of its bid for AACSB accreditation.
In the course of the past decade, Quality Assurance in Education has become a major factor in higher education. The need to obtain accreditation, supported by appropriate assessment procedures, is now a fact of life for many of those involved with higher education around the globe. For programmes in Business Administration and Management in particular, the accreditation provided by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) remains perhaps the best known global quality assurance programme, and therefore the most sought after. This paper focuses on the efforts made at a university business school in the Gulf Region to develop an assessment tool to evaluate the communication skills of undergraduate students pursuing a Business Sciences degree, as part of its bid for AACSB accreditation.
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