Evaluation of formal preparation of universities for international mobility. Results of questionnaire research conducted among employees

• Authors: Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha Dorota , Załuska Urszula , Kozyra Cyprian

Title variants

PL

Ocena przygotowania formalnego uczelni do międzynarodowej mobilności. Wyniki badań kwestionariuszowych w grupie pracowników

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is dedicated to the evaluation of the formal preparation of universities for international mobility. In order to perform the analysis, the authors used the results of the quantitative primary research conducted in the Stranger project of the Erasmus + strategic partnership. The target group included employees (administrative staff and academic teachers) from universities in Poland, Greece, Hungary and Ukraine that form the partnership. To make it possible for respondents to answer closed-ended questions, summative scales were created. The study examined correlation relationships between the respondents’ answers aggregated to summative scales, and also strived to classify the respondents in terms of the obtained values for summative scales using hierarchical cluster analysis (Ward’s method). The results of the analyses showed the existence of many problems in the field of broadly understood internationalization of universities, and also indicated a significant differentiation of evaluations due to respondents’ characteristics.

PL

W artykule oceniono formalne przygotowanie uczelni do międzynarodowej mobilności. Do analiz wykorzystano wyniki ilościowych badań pierwotnych prowadzonych w projekcie Stranger partnerstwa strategicznego Erasmus+. Grupą docelową badania kwestionariuszowego byli pracownicy uczelni (administracja i nauczyciele akademiccy) z uczelni tworzących partnerstwo z Polski, Grecji, Węgier i Ukrainy. Do udzielenia odpowiedzi na postawione pytania badawcze utworzono skale sumacyjne dla wybranych pytań zamkniętych kwestionariusza. Badano związki korelacyjne między odpowiedziami respondentów zagregowanymi do skal sumacyjnych. Podjęto próbę klasyfikacji respondentów ze względu na uzyskane wartości dla skal sumacyjnych z wykorzystaniem hierarchicznej analizy skupień (metoda Warda). Wyniki pokazały istnienie wielu problemów w zakresie szeroko pojętej internacjonalizacji uczelni, a także dużego zróżnicowania ocen ze względu na cechy metryczkowe respondentów.

Keywords

EN

internationalization of the university; international mobility of students; questionnaire research; statistical analyses

PL

internacjonalizacja uczelni; międzynarodowa mobilność studentów; badania kwestionariuszowe; analizy statystyczne

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-81

Contributors

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Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha Dorota

• Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, Poland

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Załuska Urszula

• Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, Poland

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Kozyra Cyprian

• Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, Poland

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