Establishing evaluation criteria: reaching consensus on the notion of quality in German Educational Science

Abstract

This chapter explores some of the problems which the experts in the commission encountered as they tried to establish working criteria for assessing the quality of the 15 HEIs they had been asked to examine. It does not describe each and every criterion, many of which can be identified from the questionnaires at the back of this study (where it is implicit where quality lies and can be identified). However, the following will reveal the particularly difficult areas that the experts had to address, and which, in some cases, were not completely resolved when the evaluation was concluded.