Effectiveness of University Education in Italy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Effectiveness of University Education

   1. Informative Sources for the Evaluation of the University Education Effectiveness in Italy

      • Stefano Campostrini, Simone Gerzeli

      Pages 1-9

   2. A Fuzzy Measure of Satisfaction for University Education as a Key for Employment

      • Corrado Crocetta, Giuseppe Delvecchio

      Pages 11-27

   3. A Multilevel Analysis of Graduates’ Job Satisfaction

      • Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini

      Pages 29-42

   4. Quality Assessment of the University Educational Process: an Application of the ECSI Model

      • Bruno Chiandotto, Matilde Bini, Bruno Bertaccini

      Pages 43-54

   5. Evaluating the University Educational Process. A Robust Approach to the Drop-out Problem

      • Matilde Bini, Bruno Bertaccini

      Pages 55-69

   6. A Structural Model of the Employment Pathways of the University of Foggia Graduates

      • Corrado Crocetta, Francesco d’Ovidio

      Pages 71-87

   7. Measurement of University External Effectiveness Based on the Use of the Acquired Skills

      • Bruno Chiandotto, Silvia Bacci

      Pages 89-104

3. Employability of Graduates

   1. Graduates’ Job Quality Dimensions According to a Delphi-Shang Experiment

      • Luigi Fabbris, Maria Cristiana Martini

      Pages 105-121

   2. Networks of “Weak” Ties of Padua University Graduates Searching for Employment

      • Anna Boaretto, Gilda Rota, Ilaria Silvestri, Luigi Fabbris

      Pages 123-139

   3. University Choices and Work Destinies in Italy

      • Franca Crippa, Paolo Mariani

      Pages 141-149

   4. Accept or Refuse a Job? How Graduates Decide

      • Mario Bonamin, Luigi Fabbris

      Pages 151-167

   5. A Multilevel Chain Graph Model for the Analysis of Graduates’ Employment

      • Anna Gottard, Leonardo Grilli, Carla Rampichini

      Pages 169-181

   6. Transition from University to the Job Market. A Time Analysis of the University of Cagliari Graduates

      • Mariano Porcu, Nicola Tedesco

      Pages 183-194

   7. The Determinants of Graduates’ Placement. Analysis of Interactions Using Boolean Logit Models

      • Mariano Porcu, Giuseppe Puggioni, Nicola Tedesco

      Pages 195-206

   8. The Transition from University to the Job Market. An Emigration Analysis of the University of Cagliari Graduates

      • Mariano Porcu, Giuseppe Puggioni, Nicola Tedesco

      Pages 207-217

   9. University Studies and Employment. An Application of the Principal Strata Approach to Causal Analysis

      • Leonardo Grilli, Fabrizia Mealli

      Pages 219-231

   10. Is the Length of the First Job Search Spell a Valid Measure of External Effectiveness of University Programmes?

       • Dalit Contini

       Pages 233-246

4. Competence Analysis

   1. Competence-based Compatibility between Jobs and University Curricula

      • Luigi Fabbris

      Pages 247-259

   2. The Ideal Candidate. Analysis of Professional Competences through Text Mining of Job Offers

      • Emilio Di Meglio, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Michelangelo Misuraca

      Pages 261-275

The Italian university system, along the mainstream of the European higher education systems, is adopting efficiency and effectiveness as criteria for process programming and result managing. For this purpose, both the national system headed by the Ministry of Edu- tion, University and Research, and the universities, within their managerial autonomy, activated since the 1990s a systematic assessment of their research and teaching activities and of other services. The assessment on a large scale of aspects of the educational system started in Italy when the Ministry imposed in 1999 that the teaching of each course of Bachelor and Master programmes be evaluated by the student and that s- thetic marks be sent to a National Board for University System Evaluation (CNVSU) for comparative and intervention purposes. The compelling need to assess the course quality not only demolished the atavic distrust that part of the academics have had against the assessment of the teaching, but also started, in a concrete way, the participation of students to activities dedicated to them. Moreover, the widespread consciousness of teaching assessment, as a tool for empowering the higher education system, entered the Ministry and universities’ agenda. Even though the use of the course evaluations, for intervention purposes, still is limited to the most fanciful and fearless faculties and universities, the process has started and it will not be easy to circumvent.

• Competence Analysis
• Effectiveness Assessment
• Employability
• Europe
• Human Capital
• Italy
• Job Market
• University System
• education
• evaluation
• higher education
• quality
• university

• Statistics Department, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  Luigi Fabbris

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