Higher Education Evaluation Research Articles

Online Learning Quality Evaluation in Higher Education During COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered people’s lives, including university education. COVID-19 has significantly impacted the transition from offline to online learning. Furthermore, education in Indonesia must be able to accelerate education 4.0. The learning system is carried out remotely using information technology. There will be numerous major challenges in implementing the online learning model. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Universitas Islam 45 needed to assess student satisfaction with online learning to maintain service quality. This study aimed to assess student satisfaction during online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic using the Service Quality (Servqual) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) methods. Servqual and IPA are methods for measuring customer satisfaction and service quality. According to the Servqual results, all 17 measurements have a negative gap value. This demonstrates a gap between students’ perceptions and expectations of online learning. The IPA Matrix indicates the priority of improving online-based learning, which includes responding quickly and efficiently to students’ needs in online-based learning, encouraging students’ motivation throughout the learning process, and understanding students’ impediments during the process of online-based learning.

유럽연합의 고등교육 시스템

Higher education policy is a policy area that is deeply located in the realm of national sovereignty, and member countries have objection to the unified policy of the European Union. Accordingly, higher education policy at the EU level was very limited. However, the Bologna Process was launched outside the European Union in 1999 to internationalize higher education due to the heightened sense of crisis caused by the decline in competitiveness of European universities. The Bologna Process aimed to establish a European Higher Education Area through mutual recognition and harmonization of degrees and certificates between European universities. European Union was also stimulated by the launch of the Bologna Process in the 2000s, expanding its higher education program and establishing several technical systems for student and faculty exchanges across borders. Specifically, the European Union expanded the Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programs for the internationalization of universities. At the same time, the European Union actively implemented systems for human exchange, such as the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). On the other hand, Bologna Process also built its own system such as Bologna Cycle for degree certificate and qualitative evaluation of higher education. The Bologna Process also introduced the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, already implemented by the European Union. It is noteworthy that the Bologna Process, which consists of 46 European countries, includes all 27 European Union member states. Accordingly, the European Union’s higher education policy coexists with the Bologna Process, and mutual exchange and system convergence are taking place. In Korea, internationalization of universities is also a major issue, and in order to promote exchanges and cooperation with the European Union, which has a similar academic level, it is necessary to discuss bilateral projects between the two sides. In addition, in order for Korean universities to promote international exchanges, it is necessary to establish a system for unified grades and degree certificates and qualitative evaluation of education among universities.

Construction of Higher Education Teaching Quality Evaluation Model Based on Scientific Computing

The recipients of higher education are the backbone of future social construction, so their education is particularly important. As the research group of scientific computing is immature, the use of it to perform related calculations can achieve a multiplier effect with half the effort. Especially now, the quality evaluation of higher education has not been determined. Therefore, this paper aims to use scientific computing to construct a scientific evaluation model for the teaching quality of higher education. For scientific computing, this paper used its data processing ability to design and improve the computational science model evaluation algorithm. For the evaluation model, it not only constructed it with the fuzzy evaluation model and analyzed the weights of the relevant indicators proposed but also designed a teaching evaluation system according to the established model in order to evaluate the teaching quality efficiently and accurately. Experiments showed that the evaluation result score for a teacher was 81.45, and 81.45 was between 80 and 90. The teacher’s classroom evaluation result was good, which showed the effectiveness of the evaluation model. The test results of the system showed that the system could load up to 80 people and run smoothly online at the same time.

Predictive Analysis of Students Performance Evaluation in Higher Education: A Machine Learning Approach

Predictive Analysis of Students Performance Evaluation in Higher Education: A Machine Learning Approach

Sustainable practices of selected publiclylisted higher educational institutions in ensuring good health and well-being

Sustainable practices of selected publiclylisted higher educational institutions in ensuring good health and well-being

Internship Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

With the increased pressure on higher education institutions to review and improve their practice in the area of students’ learning outcomes as part of quality assurance efforts, this paper aims to propose a systematic approach to internships’ learning outcome evaluation. Internship or work-integrated learning provides students with the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge to relevant experiences in workplace settings. It is an essential requirement in many higher education undergraduate programs where students integrate their learning through a combination of academic and work-related activities. While proving the benefits of practical training seems redundant, very few efforts were made with regards to its evaluation and the evaluation of its learning outcomes. Academic research and quality assurance systems seem to neglect this rather essential component of undergraduate education. Moreover, accreditation standards show little emphasis on internships’ evaluation and performance assessment when those topics are at the heart of quality assurance when it comes to assessing theoretical courses. This paper demonstrates the worldwide lack of models and assessment methods of practical learning and suggests a multidimensional and practical approach based on both a qualitative and quantitative study using performance measurements to assess students’ outcomes following an internship and proposes corrective measures accordingly. The purpose being to close the gap between students’ skills and the job market requirements for a better preparedness of graduates.

Revolution of industry 4.0 and its influence on higher education in Vietnam today

The objective of this study was the revolution of industry 4.0 and its influence on higher education in Vietnam today. The method of this research is descriptive in which the researchers studied the subject using documents. The fourth industrial revolution has a strong impact on all areas of social life including higher education. The fourth industrial revolution has a direct impact on the production structure and human structure of the labor market, and therefore, higher education must also change to create human resources suitable for the current market and future employment. Based on an overview assessment of the impact of the fourth industrial revolution, a study of reports and documents on higher education evaluation, the article focuses on analyzing the impacts of the fourth industrial revolution on higher education and propose some solutions to improve the quality of higher education in Vietnam today.

Budget performance management in Chinese universities: A research summary

Since 2005, with the increasing research enthusiasm of performance evaluation, the performance management evaluation of higher education in China has gradually become a hot research topic. Higher education performance evaluation is an important research method to reflect the quality of university education, and it can promote the high-quality development of higher education. With the method of literature analysis, this paper summarizes the connotation, necessity, evaluation methods and index system construction of higher education performance management at home and abroad, hoping to provide strategic direction and decision-making basis for universities to achieve high-quality development.

Online Formative Assessment in Higher Education: Bibliometric Analysis

Assessment is critical in postsecondary education, as it is at all levels. Assessments are classified into four types: diagnostic, summative, evaluative, and formative. Recent trends in assessment have migrated away from summative to formative evaluations. Formative evaluations help students develop expertise and concentrate their schedules, ease student anxiety, instill a feeling of ownership in students as they go, and confirm the module’s subject notion. Online formative assessment (OFA) emerged as a result of the convergence of formative and computer-assisted assessment research. Bibliometric analyses provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of a study topic across a particular time period. We used a PRISMA-compliant bibliometric method. The Scopus database was searched for BibTex-formatted publication data. In total, 898 studies were analyzed. According to the results, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and Computers & Education are the most influential sources. RWTH Aachen University and Universitat Oberta De Catalunya are the most effective institutions. The red cluster includes terms associated with higher education and evaluation. The word “e-assessment, e-learning, assessment, moodle” appears in the green cluster. This group is quite influential yet has a low centrality. The highest percentage is 79.2 for “online assessment”. The subject is comprised of three components: “distance learning”, “accessibility”, and “assessment design”. The most important topics were “e-assessment”, “higher education”, and “online learning”. According to the country participation network, the USA and UK were the two main centers.

What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Driving Digitalization, Innovation and Crisis Management of Higher Education and Quality Assurance?-A Taiwan Case Study in Alignment with the INQAAHE Virtual Review.

The impact of COVID-19 on higher education and quality assurance (QA) has already elicited global attention and discussion. QA agencies and networks quickly learned to adapt in order to carry out assessments, accreditations, recognitions, and reviews in a full virtual mode. These practices include using shared folders for virtual desk review, video conferencing platforms for interviews, and virtual site visits. In order to respond to the 2020 pandemic, The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) swiftly adopted a virtual mode of the GGP review exercise for the GGP alignment applicants. The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) was the first case that underwent a thorough virtual review process of GGP alignment during the 2020 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to outline the impact of the pandemic in Taiwan higher education as well as provide the meta-analysis of the virtual review process of the INQAAHE GGP alignment by using HEEACT as a case study.

Developmental evaluation of teaching quality: Evidencing practice

The evaluation of teaching quality and practice is increasingly important in higher education and usually done via student surveys (quantitative data) alone. Much less attention is given to teachers’ self-evaluations of teaching practice (qualitative data). This emphasis on quantitative over qualitative data can result in incomplete and biased measures of teaching quality, and inappropriate changes to educational practice, which may, in turn, negatively impact outcomes, experiences and university micro-cultures. In this paper, we present a case study of an international residential masters module, in rapid transition to online delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, to demonstrate: 1) how developmental evaluation (DEval) can be used for rigorous critique of teaching practice in conjunction with student satisfaction data; and 2) how qualitative reflections on teaching practice can be transformed into justifiable evaluative evidence, using DEval theory and techniques. Our DEval approach, theorised and enacted using the community of inquiry framework, increased the teachers’ skills and confidence to plan and continually evaluate teaching-learning enhancements. We discuss the implications and benefits of DEval for teachers and universities when used to assess teaching quality. In addition, we expand on existing knowledge to provide clarification on the purposes and appearances of all levels of evaluation in higher education.

Perception of Spanish Extremadura students before evaluation in Higher Education during the pandemic

Resumen La pandemia de Covid-19 ha implicado la necesidad de cambiar significativa y rápidamente las modalidades de enseñanza universitaria, pasando, en la Universidad de Extremadura, de una enseñanza presencial a una no presencial en la primera fase de la pandemia, y a otra semipresencial en la actualidad. El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es determinar la valoración que hacen los estudiantes de las modalidades virtual y semipresencial, en contraposición a la docencia presencial tradicional, en lo que se refiere a los resultados de aprendizaje y a la evaluación, durante los cursos académicos 2019/2020 y 2020/2021, teniendo en cuenta las variables de sexo, curso e itinerario cursado por el alumnado encuestado. Los resultados obtenidos constatan la satisfacción del alumnado encuestado con la evaluación, así como con los resultados obtenidos en las calificaciones, observándose un aumento en las de rango más alto (notables y sobresalientes) alcanzadas por los estudiantes, que son bastante superiores a las de los cursos pasados. Además, esta satisfacción es mayor en el alumnado de cuarto curso que en el de tercero. Por otro lado, no existen diferencias significativas en función de la variable sexo ni de la variable itinerario.

The Effect of Big Five Personality Traits on Leader Member Exchange and Organization Citizenship Behavior in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities

The Effect of Big Five Personality Traits on Leader Member Exchange and Organization Citizenship Behavior in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities

The implementation of Quizizz-based online evaluation in higher education: An exciting alternative for evaluation

The challenges of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic require creativity and learning innovation, so online learning evaluation is very much needed. The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of Quizizz-based online evaluation in universities as a fun alternative to evaluation. Quizizz has adequate features to serve as a means of evaluating online learning such as quizzes and daily assessments. However, most of them only use Quizizz as a learning game, whereas through Quizizz various formal learning evaluations can be carried out such as quizzes, daily assessments, surveys and so on. This research method is a qualitative method. Methods of collecting data with literature review, observation, and interviews. Sampling was selected by purposive sampling method, There are 56 students from the class of 2021 who are taking electronic components lectures, of which 21 are male and 35 are female, ranging in age from 19 to 20 years. The results of the study found that the implementation of Quizizz is easy to use, has many features and many facilities that support learning evaluation activities. Furthermore, the use of features on Quizizz, such as Live Quiz, gives the impression of live evaluation which is fun. Learning evaluation through Quizizz can make it easier for lecturers to make detailed and objective assessments. So, with the current Covid-19 pandemic, learning evaluation with Quizizz is the right alternative.

Trends and Perspectives in Didactic Evaluation in Higher Education

This article addresses trends and perspectives in didactic evaluation in technical higher education and in order to assist teachers in their continuous training through the results obtained. Thus, 263 students from Politehnnica University of Timisoara were interviewed. The research tool was a questionnaire with 25 items, of which 5 were factual. The issues addressed were related to an analysis of the state of affairs of the evaluation, as well as the proposals made by the interviewees to improve the evaluation. The suggested changes tackle a greater understanding and empathy on the teachers’ part, their objectivity, as well as a better correlation of the evaluation with the students’ psychological and personality traits. Regarding evaluation, particularly interesting was the suggestion of replacing teachers with senior students or even with computers. On the other hand, there is a reluctance of respondents to replace evaluators with intelligence devices or gadgets. The article can also be a starting point for future indepth research on the matter of evaluation.

Research on Higher Education Evaluation and Decision-Making Based on Data Mining

Educational data mining is concerned with developing methods to explore the data from educational environments which provides insights that help in understanding the learning process and improving the educational outcomes. The evaluation and decision-making methods of higher education resources ignore the number of specific basic systems of resource evaluation and decision-making, resulting in the low accuracy of evaluation and decision-making. Therefore, a research on higher education evaluation and decision-making based on data mining is proposed. We analyze the application of big data in the field of higher education and design its optimal curriculum design model. We calculate the phased teaching task objectives of higher education curriculum, form its curriculum teaching guidance according to the influence degree between learners’ learning progress and learners’ thinking limitations, and obtain the learning effect produced by the optimal selection of curriculum teaching content. Then the probability of learners completing the structured teaching goal is calculated, so as to establish the optimal curriculum design model of higher education. Finally, we obtain the quantitative values of different experiences, extract the main influencing factors of resource evaluation and decision-making, and carry out higher education resource evaluation and decision-making analysis on this basis. The experimental results show that the research method improves the flexibility and universal applicability of higher education evaluation and decision-making, achieving an evaluation accuracy of above 90% and with below 7% error rate.

Brazil’s National System for the Evaluation of Higher Education: Context, Challenges and Perspectives

This article discusses the implementation of the National System for the Evaluation of Higher Education (SINAES) from its inception in 2004 to present times, giving special attention to advances achieved and to the challenges that must be met in the near future. After a discussion of higher education quality assurance from an international perspective, the text examines adjustments that have been made to operationalize the implementation of the SINAES model and then emphasizes the importance of improving the self-evaluation component of the System. The article concludes by addressing the challenges that must still be met, such as the inclusion within SINAES of state higher education systems, the improvement of indicators and external evaluators, the effective utilization evaluation results, the need to distinguish evaluation processes from regulation policies, and the possibility of transforming the existing framework into a multidimensional evaluation model.

Digital Dependence of Higher Education Evaluation: Challenges and Resolutions

The Digital dependence in this study is not a dependency on the Internet in traditional contexts. The digital dependence of higher education evaluation has the following manifestations: The widespread penetration of "digit" exists everywhere in higher education evaluation; “Digit” takes up the priority within the coordinate system of higher education evaluation; Irrational "digit" becomes disciplinary force by alienation in higher education evaluation. Its roots in the fact that it derives from the long-term restriction by the evaluation views on rationalism under the control of technological rationality, the promotion of simplifying perception of the higher education field, and the resource black hole and benefit inducement that "digit" can be manifested. Therefore, the key to eliminate the digital dependence in higher education evaluation and breaking the utilitarian thinking should include the following three aspects: returning the meaning of digital criterion in higher education evaluation to be genuine, clarifying the reasonable boundaries of the digital application in the evaluation of higher education, and optimizing the structure of the higher education evaluation system.

Practice-Based Program Evaluation in Higher Education for Sustainability: A Student Participatory Approach

While learning competencies in education for sustainable development are increasingly recognized as important, few empirical studies consider competencies delivered at a program level. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a program evaluation can be approached through a participatory approach, and what this means for learning competencies for sustainability. The innovative method chosen was to implement a student-led evaluation of the program or a form of practice-based learning whereby students engaged in a participatory evaluation of their own program. This evaluation involved a mixed-methods research design and engaging with different actors—from other students and teachers in the program to alumni, administrators and employers. Students agreed on what competencies to evaluate against, then designed their assessment to gauge how and in what way five key competencies were being delivered. The program delivers competencies for sustainable development, yet there was some discrepancy between what students experienced in the program and what teachers believed to be delivering in the classroom. The learning-by-doing approach suggests that a sixth competency—implementation skills—is relevant to teaching for sustainable development. A participatory, student-led approach to evaluating a Master program is a novel contribution to the literature, which in itself led to the development of competencies for sustainability, particularly strategic, interpersonal and implementation skills.

An Integrative Multi-Dimensional Model of Culturally Relevant Academic Evaluation for the 21st Century

Due to Covid-19, the world has encountered new challenges regarding pedagogy, learning, assessment, and evaluation. In meeting these challenges, there have been rapid changes in learning, and the gap between pedagogy and evaluation has grown. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new evaluative model suitable for the technologically enhanced, multicultural environment of the 21st century. In this article, we develop a unique multidimensional model of Culturally Relevant Academic Evaluation (CRAE) that fills a gap in the scientific literature on evaluation in higher education. The model depicts evaluation as an integrated process of four dimensions: two of them based on the well-established dimensions of learning and curriculum, and two based on the novel dimensions of inclusive multiculturalism and technology. We consider evaluation in its broad context in higher education, and we analyze the interrelations between the four dimensions of the evaluation process, discussing their contribution to the enhancement of evaluation in higher education.