Quality of Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review Study

Integrating Microdata on Higher Education Institutions (HEIS) with Bibliometric and Contextual Variables: A Data Quality Approach

An introduction on data quality Data quality has been addressed in different research areas, mainly including statistics, management and computer science. The statistics researchers were the first to investigate some of the problems related to data quality by proposing a mathematical theory for considering duplicates in statistical data sets, in the late 60s. The management research began at th...

A bibliometric study on “education for sustainability”

Introduction In the mid twentieth century, Bush (1945) considered the difficulties a researcher faced to find the results that hundreds of researchers had attained. He observed how difficult it was to deal with great quantities of information and the increasingly time it took to keep updated and to produce academic works. Even though the Internet has been offering the tools, which could potenti...

Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Learning our lesson: REVIEW OF QUALITY TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

2 FOREWORD 1. In the context of the sustained growth and diversification of higher education systems, civil society is increasingly concerned about the quality of programmes offered to students. As a result, there is an increase in public assessments and international comparisons of higher education institutions, not only within the higher education sector but in the general media. However, eva...

Quality Assurance in Distance Learning - A Study in Higher Education

The preoccupation with forming graduate students of distance learning courses in Brazil, and those which aim at forming teachers, have raised concerns, especially with regards to formation consistency. According to our viewpoint, formation consistency is linked to two factors: reliability, which relates to the ability of the Higher Education Institution to provide a service in a correct, safe a...