Quality Improvement In Higher Education Research Articles

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY

Quality assurance has been a regulatory obligation in Cambodian colleges since 2003, yet it remains a relatively new idea. There is no official quality-management structure at the systemic level, and little attention has been devoted to this in the higher education sector. This study seeks to identify the internal quality elements that influence employability and quality improvement in higher education. The study uses a quantitative approach for measurement, with 200 accurate structured questionnaires sent to the public. Inferential statistics were used to do quantitative data analysis. Inferential statistics of data were presented using regression analysis and multiple regressions. This study found that leadership, academic staff, physical facilities, student evaluation, and teamwork all had a favorable impact on quality improvement. Mission approach and curriculum do not appear to have statistically meaningful effects on quality improvement. Furthermore, the study found a weak positive association between the quality of higher education and employability in higher education. The current study aims to investigate how internal quality improvement influences graduate employability and helps to the growth of private institutions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Exploring the Effect of Six Sigma Practices on Quality Improvement of Higher Education: An Exploratory Study

Quality assurance at the higher education level is the most important impacting factor on society and the economy. Six Sigma are key initiative for improving the quality of education in higher education institutions. The objectives of the present study were to explore the application of Six Sigma practices at the university level and determine the relationship between Six Sigma practices and quality assurance at the university level. In the present study, a quantitative research approach was applied to carry out the study. Three sampling regions, Upper, Central, and Southern Punjab of Punjab province were selected to carry out the study. Two public sector universities from each geographic region were selected. In the next stage, four disciplines of above mention universities were selected. A multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to collect data. Data were analyzed by applying SPSS's latest version, structural equation modeling, and regression analysis to analyze the data. The study's findings contribute to understanding the multifaceted nature of QA in university teaching. The proposed model exhibits strong explanatory power, predictive relevance, and goodness of fit. This research underscores the importance of various factors in enhancing quality assurance and informing educational practices and policies.

ICT mediated gamification in education degrees: A commitment to sustainability

This research explores the perception of university students of Degrees in Education towards gamification mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an innovative teaching strategy, aligned with the principles of educational quality of the UN Agenda 2030. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and inferential research has been carried out, based on the survey technique. The research was carried out using the population of students in the first year of the Degrees in Early Childhood, Primary and Social Education at the University of Jaén during the 2022-23 academic year (n=521). A questionnaire was used as a research tool. The data collected were analyzed using the SPSS programme, carrying out descriptive statistical analysis, comparison of means and regression analysis. The results reflect a positive receptiveness on the part of the students towards ICT-supported gamification, considering it fun and dynamic. This strategy is widely known by students, which favors its implementation in the university environment. Specifically, quiz games and classroom management games stand out as the best-known ICT-supported gamification strategies. However, students of the Degree in Primary Education show greater knowledge compared to those of Pre-school Education; likewise, those who plan to use gamification in their future professional practice express more favourable evaluations. Gamification is considered an active and innovative methodology being a key element for quality improvement in Higher Education.

The Strategi Peningkatan Penjaminan Mutu PTKI Pada Direktorat Pendidikan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Subdit Kelembagaan Dan Kerjasama

The quality of teaching and learning is a primary concern in the global higher education system, including in Indonesia This article highlights the efforts of Islamic religious higher education institutions in ensuring their quality meets established standards Quality assurance in education, as mandated by existing regulations, involves integrated efforts from various parties to enhance the nation's intelligence through education. However, improving the quality of higher education in Indonesia is still a challenge, especially in terms of accreditation results that show most universities are in criteria B and C. This article also discusses strategies and factors that encourage the improvement of higher education quality, focusing on strategies implemented by the Directorate of Islamic Higher Education. The research method uses a qualitative approach with data collection through interviews, observation, and documentation. The results of content and descriptive analysis support propositions and ideas in improving the quality of higher education in Indonesia. The strategies discussed include accreditation assistance and training in the preparation of internal quality assurance documents, as well as the importance of developing strategic plans and renop documents together. Effective implementation of the Renop relies on the clarity and accuracy of the Renstra, emphasizing the importance of both being developed on an ongoing basis. Through coordinated cooperation and internal efforts, it is hoped that universities can continue to improve their quality to support the development of quality education in Indonesia.

Performance Management and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

This article proposes a framework to promote continuous quality improvement in higher education by bringing performance management and quality assurance together in a single approach. Blending the two systems eliminates the challenges of a two system approach. The study employed a quantitative methodology, with data collected by means of a closed-ended questionnaire administered to academic and administrative staff at four purposely selected public higher education institutions in Zimbabwe’s four major ethnic regions. The questionnaire drew insights from a framework developed by Silimperi et al. (2002) on essential elements for developing quality assurance systems. Fourteen elements were used to determine the possibility of blending the two systems. Of these, nine had a mean score of 4.0, three above 3.5 and two had a mean score of less than 3.5. These results indicate a high likelihood that the systems can be blended.

Improvement Strategy of Higher Education Governance in China -- Based on the Perspective of Humanized Management of University Teachers

China s higher education has stepped from the popularization stage to the popularization stage. Therefore, the improvement of teaching quality in colleges and universities is crucial.At present, there are many problems in the quality of higher education in China, and the improvement of higher education quality is imminent. Teachers are the main body of teaching and scientifc research in colleges and universi-ties, and the main force of cultivating talents and knowledge accumulation and innovation in colleges and universities. The passive working state is not conducive to the full play of teachers creativity and the performance of the basic functions of colleges and universities. It is par-ticularly important to study how to promote the quality improvement of higher education from the perspective of humanized management of college teachers.

Exploration of Higher Education Management from the Perspective of Educational Ecology

The core of higher education management from the perspective of educational ecology is to build a multi-level, multi-agent and diversified ecosystem to realize sustainable development and quality improvement of higher education. This paper will conduct in-depth research on the basis of ecology theory of higher education management, as well as characteristics, practical exploration, and future prospects of higher education management from the perspective of educational ecology, and explore the theoretical and practical connections between higher education management and ecology, as well as how to promote the internationalization and innovative development of higher education. In short, the research on higher education management from the perspective of educational ecology will help to build an ecosystem, which can meet the requirements of modern social development, improve the quality of higher education, and cultivate more talent resources for the country and society, for higher education management.

UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY – A SUFFICIENT OR NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION? EXPERIENCE OF EDUCATIONAL DEBATES

The article is dedicated to presenting the experience of conducting debates on the impact of university autonomy on the improvement of higher education quality. It emphasizes that university autonomy is a fundamental academic value and a strategic direction of development for the European Higher Education Area, as well as a key feature of a democratic society and a condition for enhancing the quality of higher education and research. Debates are characterized as an educational technology and their role in the development of professional and general competencies of third-level (educational-scientific level) higher education seekers, enhancing the level of communication skills and interactive ability for partnership interaction, teamwork skills, as well as affirming democratic values, tolerance, honesty, and respect for opponents. The arguments presented by members of the affirmation team during the debates demonstrated that university autonomy in all four dimensions (organizational, personnel, financial, and academic) allows for the creation of a self-regulated and authoritative environment conducive to improving the quality of higher education, and also obliges universities to bear responsibility to society, as they play a key role in the development of a democratic and inclusive society, sustainable and environmentally safe economic and social development, in the development of the economy and improvement of living standards. In contrast, the opposing team argued the possibilities of centralized regulation by the state in enhancing the quality of higher education and in the implementation of universities’ social responsibility.

Research on the method of fine-tuning teaching quality improvement in higher education under digital empowerment

Abstract With the rapid development of information technology, digital technology is also continuously applied to the teaching of higher education, and colleges and universities more and more emphasize the application of intelligent teaching guidance systems. A feature-weighted Bayesian algorithm is constructed in this study by assigning different weights to each attribute depending on its influence on the Bayesian classification results. On this basis, combined with the error-reversing BP neural network algorithm, it realizes refined intelligent instruction and develops an intelligent instruction system for higher education based on the ternary model. The transaction success rate reaches 98% when the number of concurrent users is below 4000, and the transaction success rate is 90% at 8000, and the system has good stability. The average classification accuracy of FWNB algorithm in this paper is 84.95%, which is larger than SWNB and HCWNB, and the average classification time is 3.17s, which is smaller than SWNB and HCWNB. The FWNB classifier achieves high classification accuracy at a low computational cost. The system in this paper can better mobilize learners’ enthusiasm, drive learners to study diligently and inspire learners to improve their learning ability, which leads to improved teaching quality.

The media image of the higher education concept in the English, Chinese and Russian languages

The article considers the HIGHER EDUCATION (HE) concept in the media landscape of American, Chinese and Russian newspapers. The material for the research comprised 273 news articles over the period 2010-2023, containing the keyword ‘higher education’ in their headlines. The research methods included continuous sampling, content analysis, thematic classification, problem identification, keyword selection, and contrastive analysis. The findings show that the number of Chinese news articles with HE in their headlines is considerable higher (approximately by 70%) than in the American and Russian newspapers. This phenomenon is explained by the positioning of HE as a vector of national economy development in China. The Chinese concept HE includes a wide access to HE, active international collaboration and the development of Chinese regions. The American concept HE is exposed as the sum total of social-economic issues caused by insufficient financial resources and unequal opportunities for different demographic categories. The concept HE in the Russian media space is represented as a phenomenon providing opportunities for personal development and career growth. Intercultural similarities and differences are identified in the language representations of the most relevant semantic relations. The common conceptual properties across the cultures are HE quality improvement and the compliance of graduates with labor market requirements.

Examining nursing students’ perceptions of educational environment: Further validation of DREEM instrument

Background: Educational environment is an essential foundation for the effective learning process of students, which in turn contributes to the success of a curriculum. The evaluation of educational environment from students’ perception has been considered as an indicator for the quality improvement of higher education. This study aimed to explore the Vietnamese nursing students’ perception of educational environment and identify internal consistency reliability of the Vietnamese version of the (Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) DREEM instrument. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 102 second-year undergraduate nursing students in a medical university. An online survey, including the 50-item DREEM questionnaire, was used to obtain student’s perception of learning environment. Results: The overall Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the V-DREEM in this study was 0.95 and five sub-scales ranged from 0.74 to 0.85, demonstrating that the V-DREEM instrument has good internal consistency reliability for measurement. The overall score of DREEM was 143.89/200 (SD =17.50), indicating a positive educational environment perceived. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of the items were rated high score, however, there were aspects perceived as problematic including teaching methods (The teaching is too teacher-centered), student-teacher interactions (The students irritate and annoy the teachers), and students’ learning approaches (I feel able to ask the questions I want). Conclusion: The study results suggested the specific areas, including teaching methods, student-teacher interactions, and students’ learning approaches, that need more attention to enhance the educational environment for nursing students in Vietnam where the reform of nursing education has eventuated recently.

Higher education quality improvement and economic growth in China

This study presents a transmission mechanism that sheds light on the relationship between higher education quality improvement and economic growth performance. To evaluate this relationship, we employ panel models with a macro-level higher education quality index to investigate national and regional samples of China from 1999 to 2018. Our analysis reveals several key findings: (1) Higher education quality improvement has a direct effect on economic growth, although its contribution to rapid economic growth has been relatively small given the increased enrollment in higher education. (2) Higher education quality improvement has an indirect effect on economic growth via the promotion of technological innovation. (3) Factor inputs on the supply side, market opening on the institutional side, new urbanization, and infrastructure continue to be vital drivers of sustained economic growth. Our empirical results underscore the importance of improving higher education quality for facilitating China’s high-quality development in the new era.

A Study on the Correlation Between Higher Education Quality Assessment and Teacher Professional Development

This article explores the correlation between higher education quality assessment and teacher professional development. Teachers are the most important resource and supporting force in higher education, and their professional abilities and development level directly affect students’ learning outcomes and educational quality. The quality assessment of higher education plays a guiding role in the professional development of teachers, while the professional development of teachers plays a guarantee role in the quality assessment of higher education. At the same time, there is a mutually promoting relationship between higher education quality assessment and teacher professional development, forming a virtuous cycle that jointly promotes the continuous improvement of higher education quality.

Stakeholder Engagement and Determination of Priority Strategies in Quality Improvement in Higher Education

Stakeholder management is vital to the project's success because the strategies, plans, methods and processes for stakeholders determine the success of implementing sustainable construction. This study aims to analyze the quality improvement of tertiary institutions in optimizing stakeholder involvement and determining quality improvement priority strategies. The research method used is qualitative, with the NVivo 12 application analysis. This research was conducted at the Pacific University (UNIPAS) Morotai. The study results show that through stakeholder involvement, Pacific University Morotai is committed to developing the potential of Morotai's human resources for the development and progress of the Morotai Island Regency area. As well as the proposed quality improvement priority strategy is also inseparable from the proposed derivative strategy in quality improvement within the Pacific University of Morotai itself. This derivative strategy can be effective, assuming the priority strategy can be implemented effectively.

Penulisan Artikel Ilmiah bagi Dosen STIQ ZAD

Research and publication of scientific articles are core elements in academic development and quality improvement of higher education. Lecturers as the spearhead in the academic world have an important role in this process. Therefore, community service in the form of training in writing scientific articles for lecturers is an inevitable step to improve the capacity and quality of their research. This article discusses scientific article writing training for lecturers as one of the community service efforts in improving their research competence.

Higher Education Course Evaluation Based on Deep Learning Model

Higher education has completed a revolutionary transition stage from traditional elite education to mass quality education, and the improvement of higher education quality has increasingly become the focus of social attention. Courses are the most basic unit of university teaching, and the quality of courses directly affects the quality of personnel training. The expansion of higher education has resulted in insufficient teaching resources and a decline in the quality of courses. Improving quality is the eternal theme of higher education reform. How to formulate scientific curriculum quality standards and objectively evaluate curriculum quality is the most concerned issue of the society. Therefore, in-depth analysis of the factors that affect the quality of the curriculum and the establishment of the curriculum quality evaluation system and method has certain practical significance for improving the quality of the curriculum. This work combines the evaluation of higher education courses with deep learning models and proposes a network MSACNN for quality evaluation of higher education courses. This work proposes to use an attention-based multiscale network to explicitly learn the relationship between the qualities of various higher education courses. By using parallel networks with different convolution kernels, it combines different scale features at the same spatial location to better learn the relationship between the quality features of higher education courses. This work conducts sufficient experiments on the higher education curriculum quality dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate that the multiscale network based on the attention mechanism exhibits superior performance. MSACNN surpasses other machine learning methods in both precision and recall metrics.

Course enhancement conversations: A holistic and collaborative evaluation approach to quality improvement in higher education

This practice article describes the use of collaborative evaluation for institutional improvement leading to continuous learning at a regional university in Australia. The University of Southern Queensland’s Academic Quality Framework (2019–2022) was developed in response to external drivers to improve practices relating to the comprehensive and systematic analysis of academic data. One aspect of the response was to introduce ‘course enhancement conversations’, which were a collaboration between the central Academic Quality Unit and academic staff, including course teams and learning and teaching leaders within schools and faculties. A feature of these conversations was the use of sentinel rather than performance indicators of course (not teaching) quality to prompt the holding of conversations. Conversations were conducted in a spirit of constructive collaboration, where the shared goal was to support course teams to deliver an outstanding student experience. Through adopting a collaborative approach to evaluation, Academic Quality Unit staff were evaluation champions who gradually acculturated academic staff and learning and teaching leaders to evaluative thinking and data-informed decision-making. Issues brought to light during these conversations have informed changes in practice at the university level, including the development of a new evaluation procedure to embed best-practice monitoring and evaluation across all levels of curriculum delivery.

Sustaining Higher Education Quality by Building an Educational Innovation Ecosystem in China—Policies, Implementations and Effects

This article analyzes how China has worked to develop and build a higher education innovation ecosystem in the past decade. Binding its analysis to three types of data, namely clusters of national policies issued by important Chinese government bodies, dozens of articles in an internal journal of the Ministry of Education, and various Chinese media accounts, the article unravels how resources are mobilized and the direction chartered for unprecedented engagement between different stakeholders for education purposes. The findings reveal that the establishment of a higher education innovation ecosystem derives from the need to improve the overall higher education quality in full swing and has been realized as a strategic consensus among the government, enterprises, higher education, and social forces. The ecosystem is underpinned by the assigning of different roles to different stakeholders based on collaboration and division of labor. At the same time, there is also substantive capital, resource mobility, and the infusion of industrial technological expertise underpinning such an innovation ecosystem that involves six categories of collaboration at macro and micro levels. The impact of the higher education innovation ecosystem thus far includes deepened and extensive participation in higher education quality improvement by multiple types of stakeholders and the same type of stakeholders across different tiers. Instructors’ teaching and students’ learning have experienced changes due to the ecosystem’s impact at a micro level, and many institutions have increased shared governance practices to better cater to the synergy among different sides. At the same time, there is an unevenness in the innovation ecosystem in terms of participating higher education institutions and enterprises.

Analytical Investigation of Higher Education Quality Improvement by Using Six Sigma Approach

For over two decades in India, the technical industry's unique selling proposition (USP), with its wide infrastructure of technical institutes, has been capable of supplying best-in-class engineers. But recently, this claim does not hold water. According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), about 2.6 lakh mechanical engineers graduate every year in India. But the real count of industry ready mechanical engineers is approximately 7%. Hence, there is a need to assess the quality of engineering education in India to reduce the flaws in higher education. The purpose of the paper is to identify the various defects associated with technical education and eliminate those defects using various quality tools. This research is based on the six sigma technique, which is used to assess the quality criteria proposed by the National Board of Accreditation India (NBA). The proposed model is then applied to a typical tier II Indian engineering college located in south India. Six Sigma has two main methodologies: DMAIC and DFSS. The DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) methodology is implemented for existing systems, whereas DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) is for assuring quality in new products. In this project, the conclusion is driven by the DMAIC methodology. Various statistical and non-statistical tools are employed in this research. The tools used are CTS-CTQ, SIPOC, Pareto chart, normal process capability analysis, one-way ANOVA, Ishikawa diagram, FMEA, RCBD, and SPC chart. All the statistical processes are done using Minitab analytical software. From the results, it is identified that the factors that have a risk priority number (RPN) greater than 300 need improvement, such as versatility in program curriculum, laboratories and workshops, and credibility among universities. Six Sigma can be achieved by developing proper strategies for mitigating these defects. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2022-03-02-07 Full Text: PDF

Construction and Exploration of Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Platform for Network Security and Computer Technology

Today, with the arrival of informatization, the application of education informatization in the field of education and teaching and the management process is being gradually deepened. The application mode has effectively promoted the profound reform of education mode, teaching methods and learning mode. The main content of the construction of higher education informatization and experimental teaching demonstration center is to establish a virtual simulation experimental teaching center, which has had a positive and important impact on the improvement of higher education quality and the deepening of experimental teaching reform. Virtual simulation technology uses a variety of emerging science and technologies to make otherwise challenging and dangerous experiments simple. According to the main characteristics of virtual simulation teaching, we discusses the application of virtual simulation teaching in computer network teaching and proposes corresponding suggestions for relevant problems.