A composite indicator dimension reduction procedure with application to university student satisfaction

Universities play a central role within society and should provide high quality services to students. Therefore, a careful evaluation of university services is necessary. This evaluation is complex because it involves many partial aspects and can be assessed through a composite indicator. In this paper, we propose a simple method for reducing the number of partial aspects underlying a composite indicator. A practical application to data from a sample survey conducted on the last year students of the University of Padova is discussed. This survey considered the quality of many services, lecture rooms, library services, computer classrooms, reading rooms in libraries, study rooms, structure of exams, student socialization, reached skills and so forth. The method has been compared with principal component analysis. The results show that our method is worthy of consideration as it is markedly simpler to be applied than the other dimension reduction methods and requires milder assumptions.     

高校后勤社会化改革的服务外包模式研究——以D大学为例

高校后勤服务外包是高校后勤社会化改革的重要形式。本文针对高校后勤社会化改革中的服务外包问题,以D大学为例,采用问卷调查等方法,剖析了高校后勤社会化改革中的服务外包实体财务情况及其服务满意度,结果发现,D大学部分服务型实体外包会导致服务满意度下降等弊端。基于案例分析,本文兼顾高校后勤服务外包中普遍存在的产权不清晰及代理风险等问题,最终构建了基于分类管理与部分外包的高校后勤服务外包框架。这对中国高校后勤社会化改革的服务外包实践提供了参考和借鉴。     

院校学生管理工作中常遇的问题及其解决对策

学校是向社会输送人才的重要基地,学生管理工作直接影响社会主义现代化建设人才的培养。学生管理工作的好坏,直接影响着学生的整体素质,同时也是影响高等学校办学质量,制约高等教育发展最为重要的因素。在新的形势下如何进行学生管理工作,是我们学生工作者应该不断探索与思考的课题。这就要求高职院校的学生管理工作,要从健全层级管理、建立科学管理队伍、思想品德教育突出职业教育的特点等方面解决新问题。     

高校学生公寓社会化模式、问题及其对策研究

学生公寓社会化作为我国高校后勤社会化改革的重点,是深化高等教育改革的一项具体任务。本文在比较分析国内高校公寓社会主要模式的基础上,明确我国高校学生公寓社会化存在的主要问题,并提出在今后高校学生公寓社会化改革和管理中应予以完善和提高的方面。     

Market orientation: an option for universities to adopt?

• The primary objectives of this exploratory paper are to test the concept of market orientation adapted from related literature in the education context and to examine the effects of market orientation as a second‐order factor on university student satisfaction. The revised scale, validated through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, constitutes a good fit. Specifically, the new scale is statistically and positively related with student satisfaction, indicating that market orientation is an important factor that leads to higher student satisfaction. The findings show that the degree to which students are satisfied with their choice of university depends significantly on how market oriented the university is. In other words, the effective application of market orientation strategy relates to student satisfaction and to the decisions they make when selecting a university. To that end, market orientation is an option for universities to adopt. The empirical results add to the meager and emerging literature on marketing and branding of universities and will be of interest of university administrators and marketing and branding managers of universities. The paper concludes by discussing conclusions, implications, limitations, and future research.

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浅谈高校学生干部应具备的几种思想观念

高校学生干部是大学生群体中的先进分子,是高校教育管理工作的主体和骨干,是组织开展大学生思想政治教育的重要骨干力量,也是高校培养拔尖创新人才的重要组成部分,在高校教育及管理工作中有着十分重要的地位。而学生干部的思想观念直接影响其作用的发挥,在学生干部应具备的各种素质中尤为重要。     

和谐视域下的大学生就业援助体系探索与构建

厘清大学生就业援助对象、援助目标和实施主体是构建大学生就业援助体系的前提和依据。高校大学生就业援助是社会援助体系建设的重要组成部分。大学生就业援助体系应从政府、公共服务机构、高校、企事业单位和就业援助对象自身等五个层面来构建,确保大学生就业援助工作的系统性和完整性,实现大学生充分就业。     

政府创业扶持政策对大学生创业的影响评价及其优化——基于浙江省的分析

创业扶持政策对大学生创业企业的产生与发展具有重大影响。然而,目前侧重于缓解大学生就业压力的创业扶持政策并不利于大学生创业企业的生存与发展,且严重破坏了大学生与其他非大学生创业者之间的公平竞争。应当对现行创业扶持政策进行反思,重新确定政策目标,完善创业扶持政策体系,建立创业失败者救助制度,将政策支持功能延伸到创业后期甚至是二次、三次创业阶段,并与其他中小企业扶持政策、法律形成紧密的衔接。     

高校学生社团内涵建设初探

21世纪的高校社团建设进一步适应高等教育多样化、社会化和国际化的要求,注重内涵建设,提高学生综合能力,丰富校园文化,为社会发展做贡献。阐述了社团建设中出现的问题、对策和新时期社团管理的原则和思路几方面。提出学生社团建设的新设想。     

Multilevel IRT models for the analysis of satisfaction for distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic played a relevant role in the diffusion of distance learning alternatives to “traditional” learning based on classroom activities, to allow university students to continue attending lessons during the most severe phases of the pandemic. In such a context, investigating the students' perspective on distance learning provides useful information to stakeholders to improve effective educational strategies, which could be useful also after the end of the emergency to favor the digital transformation in the higher educational setting.Here we focus on the satisfaction in distance learning for Italian university students. We rely on data comprising students enrolled in various Italian universities, which were inquired about several aspects related to learning distance.We explicitly take into account the hierarchical nature of data (i.e., students nested in universities) and the latent nature of the variable of interest (i.e., students' learning satisfaction) through a multilevel Item Response Theory model with students' and universities' covariates.As the main results of our study, we find out that distance learning satisfaction of students: (i) depends on the University where they study; (ii) is affected by some students' socio-demographic characteristics, among which psychological factors related to Covid-19; (iii) is affected by some observable university characteristics.     

浅析高校食堂的学生顾客价值创造

随着高校后勤社会化改革的深入,高校食堂与校外餐饮业的竞争日趋激烈,如何为学生顾客创造价值已经成为高校食堂发展和提高核心竞争力的焦点。首先从高校食堂的学生顾客价值创造的必要性和顾客价值进行分析,重点阐述高校食堂的学生顾客价值的创造途径,希望以此帮助高校食堂创造学生顾客价值。     

探讨正确引导独立学院学生消费的新方法

适度的消费能够促进国民经济的发展,反之,消费超前或滞后都会给我国经济的发展带来不利影响。大学生作为我国社会的一个庞大群体,其消费理念以及消费水平直接关系到国民经济能否持续、快速、健康的发展,而独立学院的学生作为大学生群体中的特殊成分,由于其家庭背景、校园环境、心理状态以及所受教育等方面的特殊性,使得他们具有自己独特的消费理念,譬如,攀比性消费行为突出、盲目追求品牌性消费行为,本文从独立学院大学生消费现状出发,探讨正确引导独立学院学生消费的新方法。     

An analysis of university year-round operation

The implementation of year-round operation has often been suggested as a means for accommodating additional demand for student admissions at a university campus of fixed capacity. However, because the student flow process at a university has not been well understood, many institutions have been disappointed to find the actual benefits resulting from the addition of a regular summer program of instruction to be far less than they had expected. This paper demonstrates that, due to established patterns of student attendance, a reasonable expectation of a change to year-round operation is that the undergraduate admission rate will increase by 5 per cent when enrollment is held fixed. Moreover, the summer term will attract only one-third as many undergraduate students as are enrolled during the regular academic year. These computations assume that no attempt is made to exert control over student attendance patterns.A queueing model is developed that relates the admission rate to the proportion of students who belong to various cohorts with common workload requirements and attendance patterns. Data gathered at the University of California, Berkeley campus is used to estimate these proportions for a campus which offers a year-round program. From these estimates are derived values for the overall admission rate and the ratio of summer enrollment to average nonsummer enrollment. These values are then compared with those obtained for a campus of like size which does not offer a year-round program of instruction. The paper concludes that, unless an institution is willing to exert control over student attendance patterns, university year-round operation is probably not economical in a society which places heavy emphasis on the summer as a time when students should vacation or take temporary jobs.     

May business mentors act as opportunity brokers and enablers among university students?

Networks are recognized as a central component of the entrepreneurial process, in particular with regard to opportunity identification and exploitation. In this study, we specifically analyze the role of mentors who are in business as opportunity brokers and enablers among university students with entrepreneurial intentions. Our investigation on 1022 students from 13 French-language universities based in Canada, France, Belgium and Algeria indicates that mentors in business, contrary to other mentors, support opportunity identification and exploitation among university students. Although student gender, entrepreneurial experience and education have a more pronounced effect, mentoring is the only element that can be controlled for through the creation of formal support programs. These results call on public authorities, and universities in particular, to implement formal mentoring programs to support students who are interested in starting their own business, and who would not otherwise have access to business mentors in their environment.     

如何引导大学生正确上网行为探究

网络作为一种现代通讯工具在大学生中已基本上普及。随着时代发展,网络与当代大学生的学习、成长愈发密不可分,同时网络又有其不良的一面,作为教育工作者,既要充分认识网络带给大学生的机遇,又要充分认识网络对大学生的消极影响,如何引导学生正确使用网络是目前面临的刻不容缓的任务。通过教育和引导大学生正确运用网络,在网络使用过程中注意扬长避短,合理使用,不断加强自身校园网管理、网络知识教育、同伴及家庭的不断教育,使大学生更加合理地利用网络充实自己、提高自己。     

基于价值网的高校BOT项目合作管理模式探讨

随着BOT项目公司参与高校基础设施项目运营的情况日益增加,对在校大学生的管理出现教育主体缺位的现象日趋严重。目前,对于高等教育投资主体多元化情况下的这一新问题尚无深入的研究成果。现运用利益相关者理论,通过紧密性和权力性两个维度对高等教育管理的利益相关者进行了分类,并对实施BOT项目公司和高校对大学生的联合教育和共同管理模式的必要性进行了论述,进而构建了基于高等教育管理价值网的合作管理模式,并对实施合作管理模式进行了策略分析。研究表明:高校学生公寓合作管理模式的核心是打造价值创造平台,通过项目公司和高校的联合教育,发挥各成员的核心能力,使得在校大学生的核心价值不断增长,从而实现各个利益相关者满意度的最大化。研究成果不仅为高校BOT项目的开展和实施提供了理论指导,也为大学生的培养工作开拓了新思路。     

论大学生职前教育的培养

大学生就业难受到社会普遍关注,如何能让毕业生尽快的从学生转变为职场精英,适应日益激烈的社会竞争,是大学培养人才一个不可忽视的问题。因此,大学生职前教育的培养十分重要的。本文就大学生职前教育的培养方面进行论述,重点强调大学生职前教育的重要性,通过对国内外大学生职前教育的现状进行分析,探讨适合我国国情发展的模式,旨在呼吁社会、政府及家庭关注大学生职前教育,与高校共同完成大学生职前教育的模式规划,为社会就业大环境的改善创造积极意义。     

浅析大学毕业生的职业适应与角色转换问题

大学生从学校步入社会,经历的是一种角色的转变过程,在扮演了十几年学生角色的影响下,进入崭新的社会角色后必然会有诸多不适应,因此准确把握大学毕业生角色转变过程的心理是有效解决帮助大学生适应职业生涯的前提和基础,这将直接关系到大学生的职业发展。     

浅谈高校后勤社会化改革

高校后勤担负着为学校教学、科研和师生学习生活提供优质服务的重要任务,其服务的质量水平高低直接关系到广大师生的切身利益,关系到学校的发展和稳定。高校后勤社会化改革的每一阶段,都直接关系着后勤保障质量,直接关系着高校后勤精细化基本目标的实现。     

Factors Related to the Academic Performance of Students in the Statistics Course in Psychology

Many studies have examined the factors that influence academic performance in primary and secondary education as well as at university, with the purpose of enhancing learning at these stages and reducing drop-out rates. It is within this research framework that we want to emphasise the deficient performance of students enrolled on the statistics course in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. Consequently, this paper attempts to determine the factors that affect student performance in this subject by undertaking an analysis of a structural equation model and determining its stability over time. In order to accomplish our objective, we worked with two samples of students enrolled statistics classes. The first group comprised 211 students enrolled in the academic year 2000–2001, while the second comprised 287 students enrolled in the academic year 2001–2002. By administering a questionnaire, we obtained information concerning such variables as demographic data, previous academic record, information related to the subject and the degree of satisfaction with it, and the final mark obtained by the students in the subject. The parameters for each group of students were estimated separately and the goodness of fit of the proposed structural model was assessed. The data analysis showed a good fit with both data bases, but the set of estimated parameters differed in the two academic years under consideration.