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This book contains a selection of articles on measuring the quality of education from the perspective of the importance of theories on education, changing effects of education, curriculum dependent or curriculum independent measurement, product and process evaluation, and global curricula.

We live in a historical period marked by major changes, especially with regard to the technological advancement, global economic crisis, and political relations of social life. Undoubtedly, one of the greatest challenges of the present century, in which people are in search of roots, includes cultural construction and more solid references: learning to live together and produce together in this globalized world. In all this, education seems to emerge as a great trump, as it contributes in a more effective way to the construction of citizenship and allows the continued development of individuals and societies.

В статье рассматриваются воздействие глобализации и демографического развития на систему образования в Европе и Украине. Миграция студентов в другие страны означает уменьшение часов для персонала, уменьшение бюджета и, как следствие снижения уровня и качества общего образования. Преподаватели, сотрудники и администрация академий и университетов борются друг с другом за часы вместо размышления о стратегическом маркетинге, новых образовательных проектах, новых идеях, новом медиа-развитии, чтобы привлечь отечественных и зарубежных студентов. Статистика показывает, перемещение студентов по всему миру. Студенты мигрируют в высокоразвитые страны из-за перспектив там после выпуска. Украина в сравнении с другими странами показывает те же тенденции. В качестве примера проведено исследование в Харьковской области. Старый способ мышления, что университеты правительственные учреждения с безопасными рабочими местами не отражают реальность. В настоящее время, университеты и академии подобны частным предприятиям, которые продают и предлагают продукт на рынке под названием "образование". Студенты в глобальном мире может выбрать страну, город или учреждение. Даже в онлайне в нет каких-либо границ вообще. ; The article discusses and shows the impact of globalization and demographic development on the educational system and level in Europe and Ukraine. Migration of students to other countries means decreasing hours for staff, decreasing budget and as a result a decreasing level and quality of education in common. Teachers, staff and administration of academies and universities are fighting with each other for their hours instead of thinking about strategic marketing, new educational projects, new ideas, new media and innovative development to attract domestic students as well as foreign ones. Statistics show overcoming students worldwide. Trend is demonstrating that students migrate in high-ranked countries because of perspectives there after graduation. Comparison Ukraine with other countries shows the same trends. As an example the study in Kharkov region is shown here. The old way of thinking that universities are governmental institutions with safe working places don't reflect the reality. Nowadays, universities and academies are like private enterprises which sell and offer a product on market named "education". Students in a global world can choose the country, city or institution. Even online is up to date without any borders at all.

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We investigated the long-term effects of birthplace favoritism by top-ranking politicians on the quality of education in Vietnam. We used over 1 million test scores from the 2009 and 2014 Vietnamese national university entrance examinations. We examined both the different timing of political terms and the total years of birthplace favoritism. Using the school fixed effects, we found that birthplace favoritism did not have any significant impacts, regardless of the timing and duration of such favoritism. We did not find evidence for such impacts in the distribution of test scores either. The results also suggest that national entrance examinations were unaffected by birthplace favoritism up to 2014.

Today a need to improve the quality of education is in the centre of public attention. A basic problem in the discussions on the quality of education emerges from the fact that the term 'quality' is widely interpreted. The text points to multiple meanings of the term quality of education, and to its different interpretations. The nature and the essence of different theories of education have been recognized, and different interpretations of the quality of education in them were analyzed. The analysis shows that different approaches to the quality of education reflect different views on the fact what one would like to accomplish with the education. It means that a definition of the quality of education has been essentially determined with the education aims. The issue of the quality of education cannot be separated from much broader ethical discussion on values which have been found in its base. Therefore, the text emphasizes a need to understand numerous philosophies of education, and concludes that promoting only one opinion trend in the theoretical foundation of the quality, while ignoring the others, can have negative consequences on understanding of this complex phenomenon and thus on attempts for its improvement.

This article is a case study on the education of Orang Asli in Malaysia. Indigenous people or "orang asli" are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia but they are the minority among the total population in Malaysia. A study showed that around 50 percent of the students from the Orang Asli community do not further their study in secondary school after finishing their primary school and only 30 percent of students of Orang Asli finish their secondary school, which is less than half of the national average. The statistics of the education progress of Orang Asli are quite worrisome for a lot of parties especially the government and there are a lot of factors that contribute to those, not good-looking results. In order to improve the quality of education, studies on the challenges faced by the Orang Asli are a must. There are a lot of factors causing that specific problem. One of the factors is would be the awareness amongst the Orang Asli community towards education and another factor is would be the Orang Asli accessibility to their nearest education institution. In a nutshell, the Orang Asli are the minority communities that had been marginalized for decades and to achieve the aim to reduce poverty and uplift quality of life them, education is the main key to success.

AbstractThis chapter examines achievement, attendance, and other indicators of quality education.