A new approach to analyze the curriculum structure using the Students' Evaluation of Education Quality instrument

There is a considerable number of engineering courses that suffer with failure rates and high withdrawal of students in their first year, especially in fundamental discipline areas like mathematics and science. In order to detect the educational quality indicators, a study was conducted to validate...

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Main Authors: Silva, Thomaz E. V., Vasconcelos, F. Herbert L., Almeida, Andre L. F., Mota, Joao C. M., Andriola, Wagner B.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Context
Correlation
Curriculum
Educational institutions
Factor Analysis
Higher Education
Instruments
Psychology
Reliability
SEEQ instrument
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Summary:There is a considerable number of engineering courses that suffer with failure rates and high withdrawal of students in their first year, especially in fundamental discipline areas like mathematics and science. In order to detect the educational quality indicators, a study was conducted to validate the application of Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument in an engineering course, using Factor Analysis (FA). The choice of FA to validate the instrument is that this method has been used to validate the SEEQ instrument from the students' point of view but using this structure does not allowed us analyze the disciplines in focus, then we need to validate this same instrument into our research context according to a latent structure performed by the disciplines. We validate the application of the factor analysis by the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartletts' tests that investigate the sample adequacy. After the validation of the sample adequacy, the factor analysis validate the structure of the questionnaire, and we can state that the SEEQ instrument is valid for application in a teleinformatics engineering context to analyze the disciplines. As a final result of this procedure, we guarantee the consistency of the instrument for the application to analyze different disciplines under different criterions that can possibility a deeper analysis of the curriculum structure.
ISSN:0190-5848
2377-634X
DOI:10.1109/FIE.2013.6684809