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While it is widely understood that assessment policy and its implementation by actors profoundly affect the quality of student learning in higher education, there is a dearth of research highlighting the institutional factors that influence policy implementation in today's globalized world. Although leadership is an often-cited factor influencing p...
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... the purposeful sampling of nine key informants (N=9) who had specialized knowledge of the policy and were key informants in the department ensured the credibility and dependability of the research findings. It included the upper management, mid-managers, and teaching faculty at the Associate Professor and Lecturer rank (see Table 2). Although this was a small sample, this sample comprised almost half of the department to ensure the trustworthiness of the research; and by selecting key informants who had specialized knowledge in different roles in the department, the small sample was further balanced. ...