Journal
EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
Volume 74, Issue 2, Pages 207-225Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2020.1713050
Keywords
Student perception; curriculum satisfaction; skills acquisition; multicriteria decision aiding
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- La Caixa Foundation [2016-URL-Trac-033]
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This paper introduces a methodology to assess university curricula by measuring the gap between graduate perceptions of their training and its workplace utility, providing rankings and guidelines for enhancements.
Curricula are an essential ingredient of academic activity in higher education institutions and so it is necessary to develop tools that help improve these curricula. The need to increase student employability has recently been highlighted as an objective for universities. This paper introduces a methodology to help assess curricula in the training of skills for the labour market. Using a combination of the technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) method and an adaptation of importance-performance analysis (IPA), this methodology measures the gap between graduate perceptions of their university training and of its workplace utility. A dataset of 15,339 graduate opinions was used to analyse the mismatch between the two perceptions. To measure these differences, an index was drawn up enabling quantitative comparisons among subject areas. A ranking is provided, as well as guidelines for enhancing curricula.
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