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Martín Benavides; Juan León; Juan José Tapia – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
In the eight years following the 2014 university system reform in Peru, there has been sustained growth in the scientific production of the Peruvian universities, evident by an increased number of publications in indexed journals compared to the pre-reform period. Using administrative data, the article investigates if the growth of scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Research, Productivity
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Miroiu, Adrian; Paunescu, Mihai; Vîiu, Gabriel-Alexandru – Quality in Higher Education, 2015
The scientific performance of 64 political science, sociology and marketing departments in Romania is investigated with the aid of the "g"-index. The assessment of departments based on the "g"-index shows, within each of the three types of departments that make up the population of the study, a strong polarisation between top…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Departments, Intellectual Disciplines
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Josefson, Kristina; Pobiega, Jenny; Strahlman, Christian – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
Sweden has a high level of student influence. At Lund University, students are not viewed as counterparts but partners in the university's activities. Lund University has carried out Student Satisfaction Surveys (barometers) since the 1990s and an overview has shown that an evaluation culture has grown during the past decade. It is, however, time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Zepke, Nick; Butler, Philippa; Leach, Linda – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
This article asks whether institutional research could help improve the quality of student engagement by researching at sub-institutional levels such as in courses bridging students from school into higher education. In answer it argues two interacting propositions: one, that student engagement provides useful indicators of quality in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Institutional Research
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Alderman, Lyn; Towers, Stephen; Bannah, Sylvia – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In recent times, higher education institutions have paid increasing attention to the views of students to obtain feedback on their experience of learning and teaching through internal surveys. This article reviews research in the field and reports on practices in other Australian universities. Findings demonstrate that while student feedback is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
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Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Dontsidou, Maria; Tselios, Nikolaos – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, 93 Greek university departments were evaluated according to their academics' h-index. A representative sample from the fields of social sciences and humanities, sciences, engineering, pharmacy and economics was adopted. In the reported study, 3354 (approximately 1 out of 3) academics serving in Greek universities were evaluated.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines, Humanities