State support in higher education (HE) is often justified on the grounds that HE is important for the development of the country. However, little analysis is normally done in order to assess the impact of education quality initiatives. The Mexican government has been engaging in a policy of HE quality improvement that can be traced to 1989. In…

The statistical assessment of dimensionality provides evidence of the underlying constructs measured by a survey or test instrument. This study focuses on educational measurement, specifically tests comprised of items described as multidimensional. That is, items that require examinee proficiency in multiple content areas and/or multiple cognitive…

The purpose of this study was to develop and field test a needs assessment procedure based on magnitude estimation scaling. The goal was to provide ratio scale expressions of the relative importance of school objectives by pertinent subsets and the total sample of school patrons. A patron-assembled set of 40 goals was evaluated by 132 fathers and…