Open Conference Systems, 50th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society

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How to improve the Quality Assurance System of the Universities: a study based on compositional analysis
Bruno Bertaccini, Michele Gallo, Carlotta Simonacci, Tullio Menini

Last modified: 2018-06-04

Abstract


The National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR) defines the criteria to systematically assess students’ satisfaction on the educational activities as part of the Quality Assurance System of the Universities; nevertheless, students’ surveys on the educational training provided, become a necessary step for the accreditation of Universities and single courses of study. Latest updates of the regulations were made by the ANVUR in 2016 making compulsory the application of the evaluation surveys by the students between 2/3 of the teaching period and the end of the first exam session. Proceeding from that, the aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the regulation changes in order to measure correctly the quality of education supplied by the universities. Results achieved by questionnaires will be investigated, to allow comparisons a compositional analysis will be used.

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