Scale Development for Improving Education Quality: A Survey of Private Institutions Affiliated to U.P.T.U.
Journal Title: International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
Role of scale development is to create a measure of a construct “Education Quality in U.P.T.U. (Uttar Pradesh Technical University) affiliated institutions”. In present scenario, Uttar Pradesh has a credible infrastructure, over 765 private colleges, where students complete their degree with moderate emphasis on quality. There is pressing need to improve educational quality to meet increasing demand of the market. Our growth will increasingly depend upon knowledge economy and therefore our higher education sector must become equipped to face future challenges. These institutions have capabilities to innovate but lack better system to do so because of less quality control. Quality is fast emerging as a theme that is rapidly spreading within the higher education institutions. For example the quality of academic research is evaluated through a detailed and rigorous system of peer review, and a priori proofreading. In my view, the impact of research must be well evaluated by the researcher. For scale development, we have designed questionnaires for faculties and students and discussed principles and practical issues to help respondents maximizing the construct. An itemized rating scale is used to examine faculty’s and student’s perspective through questionnaire which has a number or a brief description associated with each response category. The categories are typically arranged in some logical order, and the respondents are required to select the categories that best describe their reactions to whatever is being rated. The end-points of Likert scale are typically “strongly disagree” and “strongly agree.” The respondents were asked to indicate their degree of agreement by checking one of five response categories. We have used path diagram technique to describe direct dependencies among set of variables. This path diagram analysed is part of structural equation modelling and found to depend on specific individual necessities and the context within which it operates. With the aid of diagrams, four known paths to replication are dissected to explore their advantages and disadvantages in the light of current development thinking. The educational institutions need to become more efficient, effective and student-centric. Our analysis based on structural equation modeling (path diagrams) shows that educational quality significantly dependent upon curriculum design as standard path coefficient is maximum (0.51). This paper is an attempt to cover all those issues related to the performance and quality management in the educational services through the study of selected private educational institutions in the state of Uttar Pradesh. This paper also highlights the use of novel scale development technique which will provide better understanding of current educational scenario and help in improving semester result and college ranking in UPTU list.
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Tanmay Kulshrestha , A Ravi Kant
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