From 2001 Italian university system has adopted the credits to mea- sure the workload of the students. The weighted mean of marks with credits as weights is used to measure the their performance. In our opinion it does not seem a proper way to measure. We suggest to adopt the median of the weighted marks, because we are considering an ordinale variable, with a non-normal empir- ical distribution, and a®ected by outliers. Then, instead of using an OLS multiple regression, we investigate the determinants of the performance measured by the median using a regression quantile for ordinal response. A real dataset concerning 133 students of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Palermo is consid- ered. Results show how the quantile regression is more able than the OLS one to catch the e®ect of each covariate on student performance.
Adelfio, G., Boscaino, G., Capursi, V. (2012). Regression quantiles to assess higher education performance. In Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling.
Regression quantiles to assess higher education performance
ADELFIO, Giada;BOSCAINO, Giovanni
;CAPURSI, Vincenza
2012-01-01
Abstract
From 2001 Italian university system has adopted the credits to mea- sure the workload of the students. The weighted mean of marks with credits as weights is used to measure the their performance. In our opinion it does not seem a proper way to measure. We suggest to adopt the median of the weighted marks, because we are considering an ordinale variable, with a non-normal empir- ical distribution, and a®ected by outliers. Then, instead of using an OLS multiple regression, we investigate the determinants of the performance measured by the median using a regression quantile for ordinal response. A real dataset concerning 133 students of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Palermo is consid- ered. Results show how the quantile regression is more able than the OLS one to catch the e®ect of each covariate on student performance.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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