ERIC Number: EJ1043036
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Nov
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
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A New Indicator for Higher Education Student Performance
Giada, Adelfio; Giovanni, Boscaino; Vincenza, Capursi
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v68 n5 p653-668 Nov 2014
The debate on academic achievement is a heated issue that involves all the higher education contexts. This paper attempts to provide an indicator that can make the measurement of university student performance easier and that can be easily applied to different systems, making comparisons more fair. The Italian University System is used as a starting point to make several considerations on the current measures and to build up a new performance indicator. Then, a generalization for other marking systems is shown and finally a quantile regression is performed to investigate some determinants of the new performance indicator, also with respect to the current one.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Educational Indicators, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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