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Evaluation in French Higher Education: history, policy and debates
2013
En ligne sur : http://www.scuolademocratica.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Oss-Int-1_2013-Chevaillier.pdf; Working Paper de "Scuola Democratica, learning for democracy", 2013/05; The French Higher Education System is presently undergoing one of the deepest transformations of its history. In the last few years, several major pieces of legislation, partly unconnected, have triggered a process of change that will alter the structure of the system, the relations among its various components as well as their internal organisation. Parallel to these structural changes, the higher education and research system has been building up a comprehensive evaluation apparatus.After a short account of the pr…
Classification trees for multivariate ordinal response: an application to Student Evaluation Teaching
2016
Data from multiple items on an ordinal scale are commonly collected when qualitative variables, such as feelings, attitudes and many other behavioral and health-related variables are observed. In this paper we introduce a method to derive a distance-based tree for multivariate ordinal response that allows, when subject-specific characteristics are available, to derive common profiles for respondents giving the same/similar multivariate ratings. Special attention will be paid to the performance comparison in terms of AUC, for three different distances used as splitting criteria. Simulated data an a dataset from a Student Evaluation of Teaching survey will be used as illustrative examples. Th…