The Dynamics of Undergraduate Education Reform and IR

Abstract

　 While much is expected from the development of Institutional Research (IR) organizations, they face a range of difficult problems when trying to make a reality of these expectations. The core of the difficulties is closely related to the contradictions inherent in higher education reform. This paper sets out to trace the dynamics as they affect the different forces concerned with the development of the Assessment Movement in the United States, and against this background, to analyze the issues faced by Japan within a comparative framework.