TY - JOUR
AU1 - Adot, Esther
AU2 - Akhmedova, Anna
AU3 - Alvelos, Helena
AU4 - Barbosa-Pereira, Sofia
AU5 - Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina
AU6 - Cardoso, Sónia
AU7 - Domingues, Pedro
AU8 - Franceschini, Fiorenzo
AU9 - Gil-Doménech, Dolors
AU1 - Machado, Ricardo
AU1 - Maisano, Domenico Augusto
AU1 - Marimon, Frederic
AU1 - Mas-Machuca, Marta
AU1 - Mastrogiacomo, Luca
AU1 - Melo, Ana I.
AU1 - Miguéis, Vera
AU1 - Rosa, Maria J.
AU1 - Sampaio, Paulo
AU1 - Torrents, Dani
AU2 - Xambre, Ana Raquel
AB - The paper aims to define a dashboard of indicators to assess the quality performance of higher education institutions (HEI). The instrument is termed SMART-QUAL.Design/methodology/approachTwo sources were used in order to explore potential indicators. In the first step, information disclosed in official websites or institutional documentation of 36 selected HEIs was analyzed. This first step also included in depth structured high managers’ interviews. A total of 223 indicators emerged. In a second step, recent specialized literature was revised searching for indicators, capturing additional 302 indicators.FindingsEach one of the 525 total indicators was classified according to some attributes and distributed into 94 intermediate groups. These groups feed a debugging, prioritization and selection process, which ended up in the SMART-QUAL instrument: a set of 56 key performance indicators, which are grouped in 15 standards, and, in turn, classified into the 3 HEI missions. A basic model and an extended model are also proposed.Originality/valueThe paper provides a useful measure of quality performance of HEIs, showing a holistic view to monitor HEI quality from three fundamental missions. This instrument might assist HEI managers for both assessing and benchmarking purposes. The paper ends with recommendations for university managers and public administration authorities.
TI - SMART-QUAL: a dashboard for quality measurement in higher education institutions
JF - International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
DO - 10.1108/ijqrm-06-2022-0167
DA - 2023-05-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/smart-qual-a-dashboard-for-quality-measurement-in-higher-education-HdxX4hJFtv
SP - 1518
EP - 1539
VL - 40
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -