The interaction between dropout, graduation rates and quality ratings in universities

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Ocena efektywności procesu dyplomowania na studiach pierwszego stopnia w polskich publicznych uczelniach technicznych

“…W konsekwencji wybór ten ma duży wpływ na wskaźniki rezygnacji między pierwszym a drugim rokiem. To z kolei wpływa na poziom jakości i wskaźniki ukończenia studiów (Sneyers i De Witte 2017).…”

“…w analizach funkcjonowania systemów edukacji wyższej coraz większą uwagę zwraca się na zjawisko porzucania studiów w pierwszym roku (first year dropout) i stopy ukończenia studiów (graduation rates) (Sneyers i De Witte 2017;Barra i Zotti 2016;Thomas i Hovdhaugen 2014).…”

Curricular change in a medical school: a new method for analysis of students’ academic pathways

“…Terminal efficiency in higher education has been one of the main traditional indicators for universities' accountability, and is a frequently used measure for program evaluation and accreditation [1,11,[32][33][34][35]. The measurement of terminal efficiency in higher education can be done cross-sectionally or longitudinally, the first is the arithmetic ratio of the number of graduates divided by the number of students that are admitted in a specific period; the second measures terminal efficiency through life paths, the recurrent variables are of sociodemographic and family orders [32,36].…”

“…Terminal efficiency is a referent of excellence and institutional performance, it allows evaluation based on quantitative information. Accreditation agencies consider it as an element in universities' documentation processes, and it can be used for comparison among educational institutions [35].…”

“…Academic trajectories allow calculation and analysis of indicators that explain students' individual and group academic behavior. Traditional indicators to measure academic trajectories are academic advancement, academic performance, terminal efficiency, academic delay and dropout, regularity and failure [35]. Academic trajectories' studies have increased in sophistication, evolving from a descriptive function of performance indicators [42], to relational studies [43,44] and finally to play a predictive role with the incorporation of new models [45][46][47].…”