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Teaching Experiments and Student Feedback

Stefano Barone
Dipartimento di Tecnologia Meccanica, Produzione e Ingegneria Gestionale, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Eva Lo Franco
Dipartimento di Contabilità Nazionale e Analisi dei Processi Sociali, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

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Published in: 10th QMOD Conference. Quality Management and Organiqatinal Development. Our Dreams of Excellence; 18-20 June; 2007 in Helsingborg; Sweden

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 26:124, p.

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Published: 2008-02-15

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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

In this article we will focus our attention on the education. Higher education is a pre-condition for the cultural and economic growth in every country. Accordingly; every country has a crucial role in fixing rules concerning both the contents of education and the modalities for its supply.

Keywords

Teaching quality; design of experiments; student satisfaction; SERVQUAL

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