The European Survey on OR/MS Education: Statistical Analysis Addressing the Lecturing Modules

Ana Paula Teixeira (), João Luís Miranda () and Margarida Vaz Pato ()
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Ana Paula Teixeira: Pole CMAT-UTAD and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
João Luís Miranda: Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Margarida Vaz Pato: ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa

A chapter in New Perspectives in Operations Research and Management Science, 2022, pp 293-315 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This work addresses the European survey conducted with the aim of learning from the most recent developments in the Higher Education (HE) area concerning the Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS) field. This regards, in particular: (i) the enrolment; (ii) the reduction in first year students’ failure rates; (iii) the perceived value of OR/MS courses; (iv) the OR/MS teaching practices; and (v) the transition onto the Labour Market. A statistical analysis is performed to understand if there is a relation of the respondents’ perceptions (“Positive” and “Negative”) and the types of OR/MS modules that were lectured at their institutions (type-A, bachelor/master programmes; type-B, separate majors/minors, and type-C, courses). The results analysis of independence tests are presented; most of the queries concerning the restructuring procedures are weakly related with the lecturing modules and the same occurs with half of the queries regarding the first year students; the opposite occurs with the labour market responses, as all of them are independent of the lecturing modules; and, both for the students enrolment and the OR/MS teaching practices, although weakly one-third of the responses are related with the lectured modules. Finally, further developments within the evidence-based approach are discussed too.

Keywords: OR/MS education; Enrolment; Retention; Restructuration; Teaching practices; Transition into labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91851-4_11

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