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Dicker, R.; Garcia, M.; Kelly, A.; Mulrooney, H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
'Quality' in education is difficult to define. What is viewed as high quality by staff, students and employers must be identified so that universities can articulate their offer. Equally, helping students develop the graduate skills and attributes that employers value is essential. This project explored quality in higher education from the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, College Students
Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo; McGinn, Noel; Castillo, Dante; Sandoval, Luis – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Universities' reputations are built in part on graduates' assessments of the quality of education they received. What do these assessments tell us? Are graduates' judgments of quality based on their experiences as students or on their later job satisfaction, that is, on process or on outcomes? The objective of this study was to assess the extent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Satisfaction, College Graduates
Owusu-Kwarteng, Louise – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
'Studying in this England is Wahala' critically analyses social/academic experiences of 12 West African overseas undergraduate/postgraduate students in a London University. It discusses structural and individual factors impacting on decisions to study here, including perceptions of differences between quality of university education in the UK and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Chong, Yit Sean; Ahmed, Pervaiz K. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
With the globalisation of the higher education industry, service quality in the higher education services is seen as a vital factor in determining a university's competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to extend current conceptualisation of quality research in higher education by investigating the influence of self-determination and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Gabi, Josephine; Sharpe, Sarah – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This article focuses on student persistence in Higher Education. It examines qualities that enable students to persist in their studies despite the challenges they face, and key factors interplaying with and affecting these qualities. This study utilised the explanatory mixed-methods approach. It comprised a faculty-wide survey which explained the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, College Students, Predictor Variables
Ashwin, Paul; Abbas, Andrea; McLean, Monica – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein's ideas, the authors conceptualise the policy documents as reflecting a struggle over competing views of quality that are expressed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
Cavallone, Mauro; Ciasullo, Maria Vincenza; Manna, Rosalba; Palumbo, Rocco – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) interact with a multiplicity of stakeholders, whose value expectations significantly affect their functioning. Students and academics represent the primary stakeholders of HEIs, directly contributing in their organizational success. Although they inherently perform as service co-producers, students and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Educational Quality, Expectation, Higher Education
Mukwambo, Patience – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Although several studies have examined how quality teaching and learning is defined and operationalised in the global North, there is a paucity of such studies in developing country contexts. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the research applies Sen's idea of deliberative democracy to a multi-stakeholder evaluation of policy formulation and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Case Studies
Ryan, Tracii; French, Sarah; Kennedy, Gregor – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Massification is a reality facing universities around the world. While increased access to higher education has significant social and economic benefits, rapid growth in class sizes challenges institutions to maintain quality standards while teaching at scale, amidst ongoing cost pressure. This paper analyses this issue within the Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Educational Quality
Caspersen, Joakim; Smeby, Jens-Christian – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Field placement has traditionally been an important component of professional and vocational education programmes, and there is a growing interest in workplace experience in higher education programmes in general. In this article, we examine the direct and the indirect links between classroom preparation for placement, placement quality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Social Work, Professional Education
Guo, Xiuyan; Liu, Jin; Tang, Hengtao; Gao, Ruiqin; Chen, Qu; Wolfer, Terry; Haynes, Aisha – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Measurement of students' peer assessment motivation is critical to understand how they participate in such activities in higher education. The current study was conducted to develop and validate a brief scale that measures student peer assessment motivation in higher education using the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT). Initial items were developed,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Peer Evaluation, Student Motivation
de Freitas, Sara; Waring, Peter; Douglas, Heather E.; Curtis, Guy J.; Ritchie, Stephen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Transnational education (TNE) has grown significantly in developing countries but providing quality and scaling to large student numbers is a challenge for universities. Blended learning offers a potential solution for scaling at high quality. A large-scale project delivering a blended learning programme for TNE students in South-East Asia was…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Student Attitudes, Need Gratification, Developing Nations
Darwin, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Student ratings are now an accepted orthodoxy in global higher education environments. They form an increasingly important metric that has been assimilated as a robust proxy measure of quality for evaluating individual, institutional and even system-level performativity. Although the technical design aspects of student ratings have received…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Martin P. Fladerer; Sophie Drozdzewski; Alexandra Hauser; Eva Lermer; Angela Kuonath; Dieter Frey – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
University mentoring programs are often implemented as an instrument to support students' personal development and successful transition to university. Scholars and practitioners alike emphasize the importance of matching for high-quality peer mentoring. However, mentoring theory and research lacks specificity regarding relevant characteristics…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Teaching, College Students, Role Models
Vattøy, Kim-Daniel; Gamlem, Siv M.; Rogne, Wenke Mork – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study examined students' feedback engagement and assessment experiences in a higher education teacher programme with the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (n = 182) and individual interviews (n = 14). The results suggested that quantity of effort and feedback quality were the most important predictors of variance in students' use of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, College Students