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In this paper “quality of graduates” is distinguished from “quality of education”, which is renamed “efficiency of education”. The first concept is defined in a quantitative manner, the second by way of a set of 66 statements concerning the efficiency of education derived from judgements about the effectiveness of particular teaching methods in the achievement of different types of teaching objectives.
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Crombag, H.F.M. On defining quality of education. High Educ 7, 389–403 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139654
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139654