Assessment of Factors Influencing Educational Effectiveness in Higher Educational Institutions

Yurii Vasilev (), Polina Vasileva, Olga Batova and Anna Tsvetkova
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Yurii Vasilev: Department of Organization and Management, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, 2, 21st Line, 199106 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Polina Vasileva: Department of Foreign Language, Saint Petersburg State University, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Olga Batova: Department of Industrial Economy, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, 2, 21st Line, 199106 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anna Tsvetkova: Department of Organization and Management, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, 2, 21st Line, 199106 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 12, 1-16

Abstract: This paper discusses the results of the study of educational effectiveness at the tertiary level. It contains an overview of the research considering the quality and effectiveness of higher education development, the issues of creating criteria for their assessment and measurement. The four groups of factors (“Man”, “Milieu”, “Material”, “Method”) for evaluating educational effectiveness were determined, totally including 65 points. The results of the students’ surveys revealed the most significant factors as well as the least crucial ones influencing educational effectiveness in higher educational institutions. The total number of respondents was 279. It was found that the subgroup of factors “Teacher’s competence” is the most important from the viewpoint of the respondents, while the subgroup “Infrastructure facilities” is the least valuable one. The priority measures list was given, the implementation of which will make it possible to increase educational effectiveness in higher educational institutions. Methods such as Ishikawa diagram building, brainstorming and the survey of students were used for achieving the objectives of this research.

Keywords: education; effectiveness; efficiency; factors; quality; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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