Internal quality management in competence-based higher education – An interdisciplinary pilot study conducted in a postgraduate programme in renewable energy

Overberg, Jasmin; Broens, Andrea; Günther, Andreas; Stroth, Christiane; Knecht, Robin; Golba, Michael; Röbken, Heinke

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2018.11.009

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“…Social competences; 4. Personal competences [19]. The degree to which students need to reach the respective knowledge at the end of the study programme should correspond to expansion level, see Table 3.…”

Section: Competencesmentioning

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“…European Higher Education Area focused on the assuredness of comparability and compatibility of qualifications between graduates from different countries in the European Union. The "shift from teaching to learning" has been an influential factor in the development of new study programmes which include a shift from content-centred curricula to competence-centred curricula [19]- [21], putting employability as one of the main priorities. According to Oversberg et al the current evaluation is based on quality measures focused on academic personnel, teaching methods and student satisfaction, instead of concentrating on the learning outcomes of the educational programmes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

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Kalnbaļķite

Teirumnieka

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Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.

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Section: Competencesmentioning

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Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

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Kalnbaļķite

Teirumnieka

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Environmental and Climate Technologies

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“…To this end, several self-assessment tests were carried out, covering 42 HIEs in Europe, the USA and China, and the process was later adopted by the Association of Continuing Engineering Education as a tool for assessing the quality of management at a global level (Soeiro, 2011). Other studies have been developed, namely the adaptation of the EFQM model by the University of Sheffield in Hallam (Pupius,2003), the study of Campatelli et al (2011), regarding the implementation of the EFQM model in the analysis and improvement of processes at the University of Firenze in Italy, the work of Fooladvand et al (2015) by combined EFQM with Balance Score Card approach, the work of Overberg et al (2019), applied in a Laboratory associated to a HEI, among others.…”

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“…In this context, the need to have more quality management systems certified in HEIs has become even more important in recent years (Saraiva et al, 2017). Despite the vast literature on "Quality", it is not easy to define it as a concept, mainly when applied to an HEI (Osseo-Asare & Longbottom (2002) and Overberg et al (2019)). This is due, in part, to the fact that HEIs needs to serve various stakeholders, namely, the government, students, teachers, researchers, etc..…”

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A study on the feasibility of implementing a quality management system, based on the EFQM model in a School of Engineering

Santos

Abreu

2019

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RESUMO Introdução: Atualmente, e num contexto competitivo, as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) dependem cada vez mais da qualidade dos seus serviços prestados, não só para satisfazer os seus diferentes stakeholders, como também, para atrair financiamento. Deste modo, as IES tendem a incorporar na sua estratégia, Sistemas Internos de Gestão da Qualidade (SIGQ), com vista a uma melhoria continua do seu desempenho. Este trabalho pretende analisar a aplicabilidade de uma IES, baseada no modelo da European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), através da sua implementação numa IES publica Portuguesa. Objetivos: Contribuir com uma análise critica da aplicabilidade de um SIGQ no desempenho organizacional de uma IES, baseado no modelo EFQM, e implementado numa IES publica. Métodos: Revisão bibliográfica da aplicabilidade de SIGQ's em IES, incluindo o modelo EFQM. Recurso a ao caso de estudo, análise documental e entrevistas com elementos intervenientes no estudo. Resultados: Foram obtidos um conjunto de vantagens e dificuldades. Para as dificuldades obtidas, foi proposto um conjunto de sugestões para a sua superação. Conclusões: A aplicação do SIGQ na IES em estudo, revelou-se proveitosa, devido a um conjunto de vantagens percepcionadas, entre as quais, o aumento da eficiência organizacional. Para cada uma das desvantagens identificadas no estudo, foi proposto um conjunto de soluções para a sua mitigação, permitindo deste modo, reforçar o potêncial de aplicaçao do modelo EFQM numa IES.

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“…Everyone aims for a degree to be used as a competitive tool [1][2][3][17][18]. It promotes various processes in improving the quality of education, improving student quality, and developing the foundations of an advanced society [3][4]. In addition, it is also used to drive the country and the economy as people with knowledge that can be in competition with other developing or developed nations.…”

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Students Model in Different Learning Styles of Academic Achievement at the University of Phayao, Thailand

Nuankaew

Phanniphong

et al. 2019

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Attitudes and learning styles can affect academic achievement at different levels. While analyzing attitudes and learning styles can not only use basic statistics, using advanced tools to analyze the students' in-depth elements is discussed. Therefore, this research offers an appropriate method for clustering academic achievement (GPA) that support student’s attitudes and learning styles. At the same time, this research is aimed to study the level of attitudes towards learning styles in different academic achievement of students at the University of Phayao. The data collection was conducted from 195 students from 17 schools and colleges at the University of Phayao, Thailand. The results show that there is a variety of cluster in students’ attitudes and learning styles with a significant pattern (types of success) of the students’ model, while the model performance has a very high efficiency to the model. In future work, it will be applied with other universities in Thailand and also used in developing applications for providing a program recommended for appropriate educational programs.

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Internal quality management in competence-based higher education – An interdisciplinary pilot study conducted in a postgraduate programme in renewable energy

Cited by 15 publications

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Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

A study on the feasibility of implementing a quality management system, based on the EFQM model in a School of Engineering

Students Model in Different Learning Styles of Academic Achievement at the University of Phayao, Thailand

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