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Sciarelli, Mauro; Gheith, Mohamed Hani; Tani, Mario – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effects of quality management practices (QMPs) on innovation in higher education (HE), and how organizational innovation (OI) may influence technical innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses were tested with partial least squares structural equation modeling on a sample of 449 valid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, College Faculty, College Administration
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Ifeduba, Emmanuel Chukwunonye – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: Communication, which is the cornerstone of knowledge creation and transmission, is sometimes undermined by noise often described simply as errors but hardly interrogated as communication noise. Therefore, this paper aims to explain noise from the perspective of communication (content creation, decoding and transmission) with a view to…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Textbooks, Error Patterns
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Bozbay, Zehra; Baghirov, Fakhri; Zhang, Ye; Rasli, Amran; Karakasoglu, Meltem – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate international students' perception and satisfaction towards Turkish universities' service quality. Design/methodology/approach: This paper used modified version of SERVQUAL questionnaire for education purpose to collect data. Data were collected from 168 international students studying in public and private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Al Busaidi, Humaid – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between engineering programme accreditation (EPA) and institutional performance (IP) using perceptual measures. Two IP dimensions have been explored to test this relationship, namely, graduate employability and student retention and attrition. Design/methodology/approach: This…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Employment Potential, College Graduates
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Khelifi, Adel; Khlifi, Slaheddine; Khelifi, Nabil; Essaieb, Hamdi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to propose a national frame of reference for the accreditation of engineering programs (EPs) in Tunisia. It uses as a benchmark the structure used by the world's leading accreditation systems such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur. It provides a…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Engineering Education, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
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Anwar, Syed Aziz; Sohail, M. Sadiq; Al Reyaysa, Meera – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: It has been argued in the literature that quality assurance is a relative concept. In view of the new challenges (and opportunities) created by e-learning institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, this paper aims to explore the dimensions of quality assurance in e-learning and test the psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Arrieta, María del Carmen; Avolio, Beatrice – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that impact the quality of the education service in a Peruvian private university, based on the perception of students and graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 29 students and 20 graduates from the Administration and Finance Program of a Peruvian private…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
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Boddy, Clive – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper outlines a variety of the research on student attrition and recognises some of the sensitivities that may be involved for some students in dealing with dropping out of university. This paper claims that because of these sensibilities, some student's responses to direct questions about the reasons for attrition may be biased by…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Undergraduate Study, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Hauptman Komotar, Maruša – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how global university rankings interact with quality and quality assurance in higher education along the two lines of investigation, that is, from the perspective of their relationship with the concept of quality (assurance) and the development of quality assurance policies in higher education, with…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Reputation
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Brinia, Vasiliki; Poullou, Vasiliki; Panagiotopoulou, Angeliki-Rafailia – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the perceptions of pre-school educators for the application of total quality philosophy in kindergartens in the prefecture of Corinthia, Greece. Dimensions, such as the adoption of quality philosophy in the pre-school unit by the superiors, the active participation of teachers in decision-making and human…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten
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Soria-García, José; Martínez-Lorente, Ángel Rafael – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how quality culture influences the relationship between total quality management (TQM) and secondary school students' perceived service quality (PSQ). Design/methodology/approach: The authors underpin research to analyse the effect of quality culture and TQM practices on PSQ. The sample included…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management, Secondary School Students, School Culture
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Pham, Nhung Thi Tuyet – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to share quality process experience from a US comprehensive university to use both direct (participation rate and assessment quality) and indirect assessment measures (assessment survey) to evaluate the quality process. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method design was used to evaluate the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Organizational Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Institutional Evaluation
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Zheng, Hong – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the factors and issues within the policy context of education and the school inspection system which might affect education quality in China and examine stakeholder perceptions of inspection content and context in one city region in China. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-methods design was…
Descriptors: Role, Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education
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Georgiadou, Ioanna; Vlachou, Anastasia; Stavroussi, Panayiota – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a scale for the evaluation of the perceived quality of services provided to students with disabilities by Special Vocational Education (SVE) institutions in Greece. Design/methodology/approach: SVE service quality was approached on the basis of the performance-only model. The…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Education
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Gomis, Kasun; Saini, Mandeep; Pathirage, Chaminda; Arif, Mohammed – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The issues in the current Built Environment Higher Education (BEHE) curricula recognise a critical need for enhancing the quality of teaching. This paper aims to identify the need for a best practice in teaching within BEHE curricula and recommend a set of drivers to enhance the current teaching practices in the Built Environment (BE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, College Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness
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