A new method to assess how curricula prepare students for the workplace in higher education

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ID21314031
AutoresDavid Riu (0000-0002-2880-3230, La Salle Campus Barcelona, Universitat Ramon Llull, autor de correspondencia), Mònica Casabayó (0000-0001-8698-5354, ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull), Josep Sayeras (0000-0003-4469-3008, ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull), Xari Rovira (0000-0002-3376-1178, ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull), Núria Agell (0000-0001-9264-2147, ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull)
Año2022
Volumen74
Número2
Páginas207-225
Fecha de publicación2022-02-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducational Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-1911 • E-ISSN: 1465-3397
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131911.2020.1713050
OpenAlexW3004846261
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas52

Curricula are an essential ingredient of academic activity in higher education institutions and so it is necessary to develop tools that help improve these curricula. The need to increase student employability has recently been highlighted as an objective for universities. This paper introduces a methodology to help assess curricula in the training of skills for the labour market. Using a combination of the technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) method and an adaptation of importance-performance analysis (IPA), this methodology measures the gap between graduate perceptions of their university training and of its workplace utility. A dataset of 15,339 graduate opinions was used to analyse the mismatch between the two perceptions. To measure these differences, an index was drawn up enabling quantitative comparisons among subject areas. A ranking is provided, as well as guidelines for enhancing curricula

Curriculum · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Learning Practices · Medicine · Psychology