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Becica, Jirí; Vavrek, Roman – Education Sciences, 2021
Quality is currently an often-used term in all areas of human activity. However, the measurement of quality is very problematic in the field of education, particularly if no specific, comprehensible criteria for its measurement, accepted by most subjects active in the specific sector, exist. Monitoring quality in the field of education is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment
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Martínez Abad, Fernando; Chaparro Caso López, Alicia A. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In light of the emergence of statistical analysis techniques based on data mining in education sciences, and the potential they offer to detect non-trivial information in large databases, this paper presents a procedure used to detect factors linked to academic achievement in large-scale assessments. The study is based on a non-experimental,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Bahreini, Kiavash; Nadolski, Rob; Westera, Wim – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
This paper presents the voice emotion recognition part of the FILTWAM framework for real-time emotion recognition in affective e-learning settings. FILTWAM (Framework for Improving Learning Through Webcams And Microphones) intends to offer timely and appropriate online feedback based upon learner's vocal intonations and facial expressions in order…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Electronic Learning, Recognition (Psychology)
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Sillah, B. M. S. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This paper employs a stochastic production frontier model to assess the efficiency of the senior secondary schools in the Gambia. It examines their efficiency in using and mixing the educational inputs of average teacher salary, average teacher education, average teacher experience and students-to-teacher ratio in producing the number of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, School Effectiveness, Efficiency
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de Guzman, Maria Corazon Gwendolyn N.; Cabana, Emilyn – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This paper measures the technical efficiency of 16 selected colleges and universities in Metro Manila, Philippines, using academic data for the SY 2001-2005. Using the data envelopment analysis (DEA), on average, schools posted 0.807 index score and need additional 19.3% efficiency growth to be efficient. Overall, there are top four efficient…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Private Education, Efficiency