Class Size: Teaching Quality and Students? level of Satisfaction with their Academic Performance

Zamira Hyseni-Duraku (zamira.hyseni@gmail.com)
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Zamira Hyseni-Duraku: PHD Candidate University of Tirana, Lecturer University of Prishtina \

No 100935, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The main goal of this study is to verify if a greater number of students within a University department is an influential factor on the quality of instructors? teaching and evaluating. One of the key analytic theses of this study, is to prove whether there is difference between the level of students? evaluations of their professors quality and forms of teaching, and the students? participation in small, medium or large student groups within their department in the Hasan Prishtina University undergraduate program. To identify the scope of this study, the quantitative research method has been used. The measuring instrument was designed in the form of a questionnaire that was conducted with the 1006 students who are currently pursuing their BA degree at Hasan Prishtina University. For the conduction of the research, students were selected from the 12 departments within the university. The results of the study reveal that there are differences between the student evaluations on the quality of instruction and evaluation. Students from smaller and medium groups within the department, declare to be more satisfied with their personal academic achievements and give higher evaluations of their instructors, considering the latter cooperative and supportive throughout the education process than did students of larger groups within the department, whose evaluations reflect dissatisfaction with academic evaluations received within their according pathways of study.

Keywords: Kosovo public higher education; class size; students evaluations; teaching and evaluation quality; students satisfaction; academic performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 I21 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2014-05
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 9th International Academic Conference, Istanbul, May 2014, pages 521-528

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