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Achievement and Quality: Higher Education in the Arts



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Achievement and Quality: Composite Text
Executive Summary
Introductory Information
Basic Conceptual Information
General Observations on Quality, Achievement, and the Natures of the Art Forms
Evaluating Achievement and Quality
Resource Documents
	Numbers and Evaluaton in the Arts: Critical Questions
	Questions
	Boyle's Counting Paradoxes
	Resources Regarding Numbers and Evaluation in the Arts
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Council of Arts Accrediting Associations

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Schools of Art and
Design

National Association of
Schools of Dance

National Association of
Schools of Music

National Association of
Schools of Theatre

Achievement and Quality: Higher Education in the Arts

Numbers and Evaluation in the Arts: Critical Questions

Resources Regarding Numbers and Evaluation in the Arts

The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can’t Make Us Happy by David Boyle, HarperCollins, 2000.

The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational by David Boyle, TEXERE, 2001.

"The Propaganda of Numbers" by Clifford Adelman, The Chronicle Review, October 13, 2006 (a section of the Chronicle of Higher Education).

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