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2019-08 McCarthy, Cameron McCarthy, Cameron Witt, Allison Hood, Denice Trent, William Poo-Dalidet, Sergio A. 2019-11-26T20:56:44Z 2019-11-26T20:56:44Z 2021-11-27T10:15:16Z 2019-05-30 This work presents an evaluation of the Chilean Public Policy for quality assurance in higher education. Such an evaluation is justified by the need to determine if the quality assurance processes have a particular role in generating spaces for inequality, and in portraying possible manifestations of a global policy in a local setting. This dissertation is organized as follows: first, it focuses on the historical inequalities present in Chilean society and its education system, which are observable in the performance results of higher education institutions; second, it focuses on the influence of global policy education discourses in the national scene, by analyzing to what extent this global policy shapes the local ones. Results are obtained on the basis of a case study analysis based on the Policy Performance Analysis approach developed by William Dunn (2011). This approach was chosen to portrait the historical process of the quality assurance policy and to trace the evidence for inequalities in the system. The analysis considered textual sources related to quality assurance policies. These documents were analyzed using Rizvi and Lingard's (2010) policy analysis perspective in order to identify the allocation of values, question the main conceptions within the texts, and compare their evolution over time. The case study draws upon several methodological techniques and sources to structure a perspective about the performance of the public policy from the 1990s to the present. By analyzing the Chilean universities ranking, the policy documents in different historical periods, and three cases of bankrupt universities, the case demonstrates how the quality assurance system has affected institutions and students in a vulnerable position. Thus, the latter is a sign of a functional quality approach of the policy and deficient state regulations, instead of a more substantive concept of quality. Consequently, this study concluded that the Chilean quality assurance policies have been unable to overcome the inequalities already present in the Chilean higher education system. Through the analysis and its results, this research seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of public policy as an instrument to overcome inequalities, as well as an instrument that can add pressure to overcoming present vulnerabilities in the Chilean higher education system. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01 The student, Sergio Poo-Dalidet, accepted the attached license on 2019-05-26 at 20:16. The student, Sergio Poo-Dalidet, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-05-26 at 20:25. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-05-30 at 11:46. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13995 on 2019-11-26 at 13:59:32 Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:56:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 POO-DALIDET-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 1396098 bytes, checksum: 223c50595c33f8afac4076f667310b39 (MD5) phd_thesis_sergio_poodalidet (final).docx: 1464443 bytes, checksum: 62731680aba6dd5896ce55badcd5bcd2 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4215 bytes, checksum: a9803d7c8f42234bdd3efed04ae865f7 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4561 bytes, checksum: e915e3f379e0146e694bc86fd705281a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-05-30 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 113000 Lift date: 2021-11-26T20:56:50Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 113000 Lift date: 2021-11-26T20:58:03Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 113000 Lift date: 2021-11-26T20:58:44Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 113000 Lift date: 2021-11-26T20:59:54Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 113000 on 2021-11-27T10:15:16Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105855 en Copyright 2019 Sergio Poo-Dalidet Quality Assurance, Accreditation in Higher Education, Chile Evaluation of the public policy for quality assurance in higher education in Chile: A case study text text Education Policy, Organization and Leadership Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.