The European Higher Education Classification: The Design Process

Developing and Establishing Statistical Indicators for Fostering the Quality of Omani HEIs

“…In a project for the European HEIs, Kaiser and Vught [13] have proposed the "conceptual, empirical and methodological framework relevant for the development" of the European HEIs, which included 14 dimensions and 32 indicators. The paper was designed to assess "the relevance of the dimensions selected", and "the quality of the indicators selected", and to supply "data that would allow further analyses of the dimensions, their clustering, the indicators, their potentials and pitfalls".…”

“…It may be noteworthy to mention that Kaiser and Vught [13] and Vught and Ziegele [20] have studied the attributes of "validity" and "feasibility" by partitioning each measure to five and four factors respectively. Numerous references (e.g.…”

“…Numerous references (e.g. [13][14][15], [2][3], [18] and [19]) have explained some of the attributes/properties of SIs.…”

“…To find out whether the "reliability/validity/ feasibility" problem is perceived to exist by the responding HEIs, the HEIs have been asked to evaluate the indicators through the expressions: "indicator A is a valid indicator for this dimension", "the information is reliable", "the process of collecting and reporting the data is feasible", ( [13] page 78, and [20] pages [19][20].…”

“…In order to assure the validity of the scale used, the modified research instrument, which is based on an instrument and which is proposed in [13], has been modified and used. The questionnaire in this research is based on "five-level Likert items scale" (Strongly Disagree (1); Disagree (2); Cannot Say (3); Agree (4); Strongly Agree (5)).…”