FSD2678 Evaluation of Degree Reform in Finland 2010: University Faculties
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Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC)
Other Identification/Acknowlegements
Nokso-Koivisto, Aleksis (Student Research Foundation (Otus))
Penttilä, Johanna (Student Research Foundation (Otus))
Abstract
The evaluation survey examined how well the objectives set for the Bologna Process had been achieved in Finnish university faculties and how well the new two-cycle degree structure functioned. Other main themes included student mobility and changes in degree requirements.
First questions investigated to what extent the faculties had been aware of the goals set for the degree reform, what were the most important goals for the faculty and how well these goals had been achieved. Other topics included participation in field-specific projects connected to the reform at national or European level and the usefulness of such projects. Faculties were asked to evaluate the implementation of the reform in the university, to what extent different stakeholders had participated, how useful national level support for the implementation had been and how well the faculty had succeeded in transferring from the previous to the new degree structure. The functionality of the two-cycle system was studied with a number of questions relating to the status and feasibility of bachelor and master degrees. Further questions investigated the impact of the reform on the length of study, that is, how quickly students complete their courses.
Next set of questions studied whether the reform had facilitated and increased domestic and international mobility of students and in what ways. Another theme focused on the impact of the reform on curricula and degree requirements. Questions covered, for instance, to what extent curricula had been changed in the faculty, what factors had been taken into account in planning them, equivalence between credits and workload and whether the needs of working life had been taken into account. Finally, the respondents were asked to evaluate the implementation and success of the degree reform in their own faculty.
Background variables included the name of the university and field of study of the faculty.
Keywords
curriculum; educational policy; educational systems; higher education institutions; tertiary education; university courses
Topic Classification
educational research (FSD Topics Classification)
educational policy (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Restrictions
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes. FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC)
Data Producer
Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC)
Collection Date
April 2010 - May 2010
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Organization
Universe
Faculties of Finnish universities
Sampling Procedure
Judgement sampling
There were 23 faculties selected to the sample, representing 17 universities and eleven different fields of study. 22 faculties consented to participate. Sampling aimed at obtaining good coverage across major fields of study which have a large number of students. The fields of study studied in one university only were excluded as well as medicine which does not follow the two-cycle degree system.
The faculties participating in the study: Aalto University School of Economics, Aalto University Faculty of Information and Natural Sciences, University of Helsinki Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, University of Eastern Finland School of Educational Sciences and Psychology plus School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland Faculty of Science and Forestry, University of Jyväskylä Faculty of Humanities, University of Jyväskylä Department of Education, University of Lapland Faculty of Education, Lappeenranta University of Technology: Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu Faculty of Technology, Sibelius Academy Degree Programme in Music Performance, Hanken School of Economics, Tampere University of Technology Faculty of Business and Technology Management, University of Tampere Faculty of Education, University of Tampere Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Turku School of Economics, University of Turku Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vaasa Faculty of Business Studies and Åbo Akademi University Faculty of Arts.
Collection Mode
Internet survey
Research Instrument
Semi-structured questionnaire
Time Method
Cross-sectional study
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Data version
1.0 (28.10.2011)
Other Material
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish and Swedish. Responses to open-ended questions: html file in Finnish or Swedish.
Related Studies
FSD2677 Evaluation of Degree Reform in Finland 2010: Higher Education Institutions
FSD2680 Evaluation of Degree Reform in Finland 2010: University of Applied Sciences Programmes
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Bibliographical Citation
Evaluation of Degree Reform in Finland 2010: University Faculties [computer file]. FSD2678, version 1.0 (2011-10-28). Helsinki: Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) [producer], 2010. Tampere: Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2011.
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