LEHRE & FORSCHUNG – Hoch­schule im Fokus.
Inter­diszi­plinre Schriften­reihe zu Hoch­schul­bildung, Hoch­schul­leben, Hoch­schul­manage­ment und Hoch­schul­politik. Band 21

Hamburg 2014. 310 Seiten
ISBN 978-3-8300-7810-4

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Controlling (also known as managing accounting) at universities should really improve their effectiveness and efficiency. Further, it’s supposed to create transparency into offered services. To date, methods and instruments of controlling haven’t been accustomed to support teaching at universities it Hochschulcontrolling Bezugsrahmen und Instrumente zur Sicherung der Lehreffektivitt (= Controlling of Universities Framework and Instruments for Making certain the potency of Teaching) is really a contribution for eliminating this deficit.

Within the first chapter from the book, the readers learns concerning the social relevance training and the demand for generating concepts and instruments because of its improvement.

Chapter 2 is devoted to the introduction of a controlling framework for making certain the potency of teaching in academic programs and single courses. Initially, basics of controlling and greater education are described and defined. Next, an extensive condition from the art analysis around the subject Hochschulcontrolling (= controlling of universities) is carried out. Finally, the controlling framework is developed. The framework differentiates between the amount of an instructional program and single courses. On levels, the phases of design, evaluation and demanding reflection could be distinguished all of individuals phases is visible like a beginning point for controlling.

The next two chapters take a look at different phases from the framework in greater detail.

Chapter 3 concentrates on the style of an instructional program, with focus on the entire process of developing and defining its objectives. Students would be the primary stakeholder training. Therefore, their objectives are hierarchically structured, according to decision theory. Further, an empirical study and it is answers are described. Within this study, 1,176 students from business financial aspects programs (undergraduate and graduate) of six German universities were requested to recognize their objectives with an online questionnaire. This approachs results may be used by students to recognize their study strategies, might help while (re-)accreditation of educational programs, will help improve academic programs and may identify kinds of students. This chapter is finished with factors about how the presented approach could be progressed into a musical instrument for identifying and weighting students objectives for normal use at universities.

The topic of chapter 4 may be the support of the courses evaluation. Instead of the (mostly) satisfaction-oriented evaluations training, one and services information theory can be used to build up a far more comprehensive evaluation instrument. The models structure is used in a person course as well as an evaluation instrument is developed. This instrument includes a job interview guideline, an observation sheet, along with a questionnaire for college students. The usability from the instrument is shown towards the readers within an empirical study by which eleven classes are evaluated.

The presented results reveal that teachers awareness for explaining and communicating the courses objectives could be elevated through the evaluation instrument. Additionally, the outcomes from the evaluation mainly offer the teachers procedure for reflection, which assist them to change and enhance their courses.

Finally, chapter 5 provides a summary in addition to implications and limitations from the presented research.