{"title":"Student satisfaction with honours programme in Azerbaijan","authors":"Azar Abizada, Fizza Mirzaliyeva","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2020.1865262","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2014, the Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic launched an honours programme in several universities to introduce the advanced curriculum and interactive teaching methodology. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the success of the programme via the satisfaction level of the honours students with the delivery of the promised purposes of this programme, such as curriculum, teaching methodology and the programme administration in general. Preliminary results show that honours students are satisfied with each of those variables. Moreover, to understand whether the satisfaction of the students is purely due to the structure of the honours programmes, the satisfaction level of honours students was compared with that of non-honours students from the corresponding degree programmes. The results showed that honours students are more satisfied than the non-honours students in all the above-mentioned criteria.","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"264 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quality in Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2020.1865262","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT In 2014, the Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic launched an honours programme in several universities to introduce the advanced curriculum and interactive teaching methodology. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the success of the programme via the satisfaction level of the honours students with the delivery of the promised purposes of this programme, such as curriculum, teaching methodology and the programme administration in general. Preliminary results show that honours students are satisfied with each of those variables. Moreover, to understand whether the satisfaction of the students is purely due to the structure of the honours programmes, the satisfaction level of honours students was compared with that of non-honours students from the corresponding degree programmes. The results showed that honours students are more satisfied than the non-honours students in all the above-mentioned criteria.
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Quality in Higher Education is aimed at those interested in the theory, practice and policies relating to the control, management and improvement of quality in higher education. The journal is receptive to critical, phenomenological as well as positivistic studies. The journal would like to publish more studies that use hermeneutic, semiotic, ethnographic or dialectical research as well as the more traditional studies based on quantitative surveys and in-depth interviews and focus groups. Papers that have empirical research content are particularly welcome. The editor especially wishes to encourage papers on: reported research results, especially where these assess the impact of quality assurance systems, procedures and methodologies; theoretical analyses of quality and quality initiatives in higher education; comparative evaluation and international aspects of practice and policy with a view to identifying transportable methods, systems and good practice; quality assurance and standards monitoring of transnational higher education; the nature and impact and student feedback; improvements in learning and teaching that impact on quality and standards; links between quality assurance and employability; evaluations of the impact of quality procedures at national level, backed up by research evidence.