Workshop 4
Monitoring by Statistical Indicators
Goal setting & formulation of operational objectives
as a key challenge of monitoring systems
Introduction
Chair: Judith Lannert
Rapporteur: Lorenz Lassnigg
Agenda
• Objectives:
to exchange experience about the use of statistics for QD/QA;
to identify key challenges and solutions (ideas for peer learning?)
• Two cases and comments
The use of indicators for quality development in
Denmark by Philip Pedersen
Case 1:
Comment by Giorgio Alluli (Italy)
The use of management information for statistical
monitoring in Swedish HE by Anna Gärdqvist, Mats Haglund
Case 2:
Comment by Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti (Austria)
• Discussion, Lessons learned?
Some guiding questions
• How to move from descriptive data to quality indicators via the
goal setting process?
• What are main supporting factors/obstacles to operational goal
definitions?
• Which actors are necessarily involved in the use/development of
statistics?
• What are the necessary ingredients of successful dissemination
and feedback mechanisms?
• How is the relationship between monitoring-statistics-information
and governance?
• Is there a main difference between VET and HE?
• Which important European issues are touched in the cases
analysed?