Quality of Higher Education/Further Education
Brief characteristics
Scientific expertise is focused on the theoretical, practical and research modelling of the process of improving the quality of higher education and/or further education by defining and verifying the quality indicators within the diversified approaches that includes an identification of barriers (institutional, national and transnational) in the implementation of approach based on ESG including definition of options for their removal in accordance with the existing legislative provision in the field of quality assurance (in the respective country).
Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
Research team leader and team members
prof. RNDr. Libor Vozár, CSc.
prof. PaedDr. Alena Hašková, CSc.
doc. PhDr. Ružena Žilová, PhD.
PhDr. Ľubor Pilárik, PhD.
PhDr. Michal Čerešník, PhD.
PaedDr. Dana Malá, PhD.
prof. PaedDr. Alena Hašková, CSc.
doc. PhDr. Ružena Žilová, PhD.
PhDr. Ľubor Pilárik, PhD.
PhDr. Michal Čerešník, PhD.
PaedDr. Dana Malá, PhD.
Most significant research projects
- 511491-LLP-1-2010-1-CZ-KA1-KA1SCR: Identifying Barriers in Promoting the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance at Institutional Level and Making Recommendations as to How These Might be Addressed, 2011 - 2013.
Publications
- Hašková, A. – Pilárik, Ľ. – Verešová, M.: Management Structures and HEI Quality Assurance. In: Technológia vzdelávania. - ISSN 1335-003X, vol. 21, no. 2 (2013), p. 4-10;
- Hašková A. et al.: Information and Internal Quality Assurance in European and Slovak Higher Education Institutions. In: Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education. Rotterdam: Springer, 2014. - ISSN 978-94-6209-492-5, p. 99-107;
- Verešová, M.: Výsledky vzdelávania v kontexte individuálnych osobitostí edukanta (Learning Outcomes in the Context of Individual Peculiarity of Educator). In: Jana Duchovičová a kol. Psychodidactic Concept of Curricular and Mediation Context in Education. – 1st edition. - Ústí nad Labem: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. 2013. - ISBN 978-80-7414-658-9, p. 133-160;
- Verešová, M.: The Role of Learning Styles and Learning Outcomes of University Students from the Aspect of Learning Environment in a Study Subject "Primary Drug Prevention". DOI 10.1016/j.sbspro. 2014.01.424. In: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. - ISSN 1877-0428, vol. 116, no. 2 (2014), online, p. 1501-1508.
Conferences
- Association of deans of Faculty of Education (ADPF) from Czech and Slovak Republic – invited lecture of doc. Marcela Verešová within the session of ADPF: Current Approaches and Challenges in the Context of the Implementation and Evaluation of Education Quality Systems at Higher Education Institutions, October 18, 2013;
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czech Republic - invited lecture of doc. Marcela Verešová within the conference: IPN – Quality – Implementation of European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) into System of Quality Assurance of Higher Education Institution, Prague, Czech Republic, April 24, 2014;
- Slovak Academic Agency for International Cooperation (SAAIC) – invited lecture of Doc. Marcela Verešová within the conference: Implementation of ECVET and Learning Outcomes - Theories and Methodology of Defining and Writing Learning Outcomes, December 5, 2014.
International cooperation
Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES), Prague, Czech Republic;Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
