Beyond Employment Rate: A Multidimensional Indicator of Higher Education Effectiveness
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- 作者：Maria Cristiana Martini ; Luigi Fabbris
- 关键词：Educational effectiveness ; Composite indicator ; Indicator relevance ; Indicator reliability ; Structural equation modelling ; University of Padua
- 刊名：Social Indicators Research
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：130
- 期：1
- 页码：351-370
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- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Quality of Life Research; Microeconomics; Public Health; Human Geography; Quality of Life Research;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-0921
- 卷排序：130
文摘
This paper proposes a multidimensional indicator of higher education effectiveness that aims at going beyond the limits of measuring university effectiveness merely through employment rates. The units of analysis are the study programmes. Eleven indicators related to external effectiveness are selected, and their reliability for and relevance to the representation of the concept of effectiveness are empirically evaluated. The data are drawn from a longitudinal survey administered to graduates of the University of Padua, Italy, from 2008 to 2011. From our analyses, effectiveness appears to be a multidimensional concept composed by professional empowerment, employability and personal fulfilment. The right time for collecting relevant data on educational outcomes varies according to the types of indicators: indicators of professional empowerment assessed 1 year after graduation are most suitable, while for personal fulfilment measurement both short- and long-term evaluation are relevant, and, for employability, data collected 3 years after graduation cannot discriminate among study programmes.