; (4) in subsection (p), by striking Nothing and inserting Except as otherwise provided in subsection (a)(5)(A) and section 2(a) of the Quality Higher Education Act of 2019 , nothing ; and (5) by adding at the end the following: (r) Evaluation of quality and achievement measures (1) In general The Secretary shall direct the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity to— (A) regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the performance benchmarks established and standards selected by accrediting agencies and associations under subsection (a)(5)(A); and (B) compare similarly situated accrediting agencies or associations, whose similarity may not be determined solely by the educational sector to which the institutions being evaluated belong, based on the performance benchmarks and standards used in subsection (a)(5)(A) by such agencies and associations. (2) Accreditor standards The Secretary may require an accrediting agency or association to review and revise the standards selected, or the performance benchmarks established, by such agency or association, if the Secretary determines that the standards are not appropriate for the peer group of institutions for which such standards were selected, or that the performance benchmarks for standards for the domains listed in subsection (a)(5)(A)(i) are too low. .