CBEN's quality framework: A case study in its application to CBE curriculum quality standards at Walden University

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. e01170
Author(s):  
Lisa McIntyre-Hite ◽  
Martha Cheney ◽  
Sandra Weinstein Bever ◽  
Linda Mast ◽  
Alexander R. Hapka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Standards ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Walden University

The Development of Quality Standards for Rural Farm Accommodations: A Case Study in South Korea

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duk-Byeong Park ◽  
Kyung-Hee Kim ◽  
Hyungsuk Choo
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Direct Inspection

This study adopted a Delphi method to identify suitable criteria for evaluating the farm accommodation quality and applied the analytic hierarchy process to determine the relative weights of those evaluation criteria. A case study was then conducted to assess and rank 275 selected farm accommodations by adopting the proposed quality framework in order to obtain an accepted quality standard. Results of analyses with the data achieved through direct inspection of those operations and interview with their operators are shown as quality standard assessments of participating farm accommodations. Potential improvements that farms can make through the quality standard are also provided. Finally, this study suggests that the quality framework and evaluation results be used as a guide for farm accommodations to develop, review, and improve the quality and its management.

Trusting Computers Through Trusting Humans

2008 ◽  
pp. 3460-3474
Author(s):  
Alison Adam ◽  
Paul Spedding
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Software Verification ◽  
Mathematical Proof ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Software Quality Assurance ◽  
The Social

This article considers the question of how we may trust automatically generated program code. The code walkthroughs and inspections of software engineering mimic the ways that mathematicians go about assuring themselves that a mathematical proof is true. Mathematicians have difficulty accepting a computer generated proof because they cannot go through the social processes of trusting its construction. Similarly, those involved in accepting a proof of a computer system or computer generated code cannot go through their traditional processes of trust. The process of software verification is bound up in software quality assurance procedures, which are themselves subject to commercial pressures. Quality standards, including military standards, have procedures for human trust designed into them. An action research case study of an avionics system within a military aircraft company illustrates these points, where the software quality assurance (SQA) procedures were incommensurable with the use of automatically generated code.

Trusting Computers Through Trusting Humans

2011 ◽  
pp. 384-398
Author(s):  
Alison Adam ◽  
Paul Spedding
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Software Verification ◽  
Mathematical Proof ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Software Quality Assurance ◽  
The Social

This chapter considers the question of how we may trust automatically generated program code. The code walkthroughs and inspections of software engineering mimic the ways that mathematicians go about assuring themselves that a mathematical proof is true. Mathematicians have difficulty accepting a computer generated proof because they cannot go through the social processes of trusting its construction. Similarly, those involved in accepting a proof of a computer system or computer generated code cannot go through their traditional processes of trust. The process of software verification is bound up in software quality assurance procedures, which are themselves subject to commercial pressures. Quality standards, including military standards, have procedures for human trust designed into them. An action research case study of an avionics system within a military aircraft company illustrates these points, where the software quality assurance (SQA) procedures were incommensurable with the use of automatically generated code.

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