Ensuring sustainable education through the management of higher education quality indicators

Abstract

The study is devoted to a multicriteria assessment of the quality indicators of the educational environment sustainability of higher education institutions (HEIs) for the purpose of their effective management. The educational environment is a complex system that has many quality indicators that change over time and have a deterministic and random component. To effectively evaluate such systems, it is necessary to use the tools of mathematical statistics and the principles of qualimetrics. Criteria can have different scales and ranges of measurement, and in order to obtain a comprehensive indicator of the quality of the educational environment, it is necessary to convert all criteria into a single evaluation scale. This makes it possible to integrate them into a single statistical array, considering them as an indicators’ system. A system of nonlinear functional dependencies with a stepwise form is proposed. The choice of a particular dependence for converting the criteria into a dimensionless scale depends on the significance of each of them. For each criterion, the panel of experts selects a specific dependency. As a calculations result, the quality indicators (FI) scores were obtained on a dimensionless scale (0.1).