Title: Assessment of education quality: students' view

Authors: Vladzimir Vasilyeu; Siarhei Zenchanka; Victoria Miakhedka

Addresses: Minsk Branch of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics, 127, build.2, Mayakovskogo Str., Minsk, 220028, Belarus ' International Communication and Marketing Department of Minsk Branch of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics, 127, build.2, Mayakovskogo Str., Minsk 220028, Belarus ' Minsk Branch of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics, 127, build.2, Mayakovskogo Str., Minsk 220028, Belarus

Abstract: Information technologies are being implemented in educational process increasingly. E-learning and smart education have become a part of educational process. Introduction of such technologies requires the assessment of students' opinions. The aim of this work is to estimate students' perception of using information technologies and the quality of educational process as a whole. To get the evaluation of students' opinion, the interviews with the students of different classes and different forms of education were taken. The questionnaire contains 50 criteria of estimation separated into several groups such as teaching methods and the means used. Statistical data analysis was used to pick out students' estimations and correlations between different groups of questions. As a result, two main components were distinguished that can be called traditional and electronic components of educational process.

Keywords: quality assessment; education quality; student perceptions; estimation criteria; knowledge; information technology; educational process; statistical data analysis; interviews; innovation; e-learning; smart education; electronic learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIE.2014.067918

International Journal of Innovation in Education, 2014 Vol.2 No.2/3/4, pp.87 - 102

Received: 23 Mar 2013
Accepted: 07 Aug 2013
Published online: 09 Mar 2015 *

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