TOJQIH - Volume 3 - Issue 1 - January 2016
ENSURING QUALITY IN PRESERVICE INTERNSHIP TEACHING IN CHINA: STAKEHOLDERS’ VOICES IN BEIJING Masauko Msiska, Madiha Salik
Abstract: This paper aims to explore how quality teaching is ensured during preservice teaching internship in China. Data were collected through interviews with four groups of stakeholders: university professors, interns, mentors and school administrators. The study showed that quality teaching during internship is ensured by thoroughly grounding the interns in their subject content areas and education courses which include pedagogy at the training institution and through the support the interns get from their professors, mentors and school administrators during teaching practice. However the study proposes that strong cooperation between the cooperating schools and the teacher training institutions is required to achieve a strong alignment between course work and teaching practicum.
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE IN FINNISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 2010–2012 Osmo Kauppila
Abstract: Excellence in university teaching is a current topic both in research and in practice; however, there are only few studies that focus on the practices employed by winners of national teaching excellence awards. This study approaches this research gap through an analysis of the Centres of Excellence in Finnish university education for the period 2010–2012. The award winners’ applications are analysed using qualitative data analysis software, and all practices demonstrated by the award-winning units are coded using the European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence criteria as a framework. The results are compared between the analysed units and with previous research literature on teaching excellence. The discovered common practices include quality assurance-related activities, researcher training, core analysis of content and active participation of stakeholders. Comparisons with earlier research show similarities in practices with the Norwegian Centres of Excellence. Some less tangible aspects of excellence cannot be directly identified through practices but need to be supported by more holistic models of teaching excellence. The research results can be utilized as a benchmark to support development work in higher education.
INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS' SATISFACTION WITH STUDENT LIFE QUALITY ON THEIR PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN PORTUGAL Zoran Mihanović, Kristina Zekić
Abstract: This paper discusses the student satisfaction, student’s life quality and their performance. The main goal of this paper is to further elaborate which factor influences the overall student life satisfaction to the greatest extent. Furthermore, the aim of this paper is to establish if there is a direct link between student life satisfaction and life in general and the link between student life satisfaction and students’ performance. The verification of research goals is based on the review of literature. On the basis of previous research, a valid research instrument was created. The verification of research goals are empirically analysed among the students of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. It is believed that research results can assist managers of educational institutions in creating a strategy, leading to the better students satisfaction with student life quality and there performances.
QUALITY OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN VETERINARY EDUCATION IN SUDAN Adil Salim ELSHEIKH, Mohamed Abdelsalam ABDALLA
Abstract: This study was carried out to compare the traits of undergraduate students of four veterinary faculties in Sudan; namely of universities of Khartoum (U of K), Sudan (SUST), Bahari (U of BH) and Butana (U of B). Additionally, the study draws the attention of specialists in the field of higher education; veterinary educators and those interested in veterinary education to the importance of these traits when admitting students to this vital specialization. A simple closed ended questionnaire was distributed to 525 undergraduates of the aforementioned faculties to give their age, gender, high school they attended, the frequency they took high school certificate (HSC) exams, the percent that qualify them to enter the faculty and their type of admission. The number of accurately filled questionnaires recovered was 394 (75% recovery rate). The results of this study showed that the students’ traits vary significantly (p<0.001) with faculty. In conclusion the quality of undergraduate veterinary students in Sudan varies with faculty. Thus it is expected that these faculties graduate veterinarians of varying quality; whatever the academic and material potential of these faculties are similar or not.
SERVICE QUALITY AT BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY Naveed Ahmed, Zhou Lulin, Ali Abudllah Bajwa
Abstract: The quality of higher education is increasingly becoming an important issue as the socio-economic development of a country owes much to it. The objective of the study is to measure quality of services being provided at business schools in Pakistani public and private sector universities on SERVQUAL model and students’ perceived level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on Entrepreneurial Self Efficacy model and to further prove any correlations between both. The Data was collected from MBA students of four universities, two from public and two from private sector. The data was analyzed using SPSS. The results revealed that private sector university students are quite satisfied from the services of their universities and their perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy level is also higher. The students of public sector universities are dissatisfied and their perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy level is lower. Furthermore, Quality of services of universities has positive impact on students’ satisfaction and perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy level.
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