Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei sende ich Ihnen einen Call for Abstracts für die ESRA Konferenz 2019 für eine Session zum Thema „Using Surveys for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Challenges and Solutions <https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessionCategories?sess=75>“. Die Konferenz findet vom 15. bis 19.7.2019 in Zagreb statt. Der Call richtet sich insbesondere an Personen, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen Umfragedatenerhebung und Verwendung von Umfrageergebnissen für die Qualitätsentwicklung an Hochschulen arbeiten. Einreichungsfrist für die Abstracts (max. 300 Wörter) ist der 18.11.2018. Die Einreichung der Abstracts erfolgt über die Webseite der ESRA: https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register <https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register> Gerne können Sie die E-Mail auch an interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen weiterleiten! Beste Grüße Wiebke Breustedt Call for Abstracts für die Session zum Thema "Using Surveys for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Challenges and Solutions“ Session Coordinators: Wiebke Breustedt, M.A.; Anna Ebert, M.A. (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Zentrum für Hochschulqualitätsentwicklung) The increasing availability of accessible and affordable survey tools provides ample opportunities to gather data on individuals’ subjective perspective. More and more, such data are used as evidence in practical fields of application including quality assurance in higher education. In post-Bologna Europe, the newly revised European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ESG) emphasize the importance of data including survey data from students and staff as they help stakeholders at all levels to make informed decisions (ENQA et al. 2015, Standard 1.7). Social scientists who collect and analyze data for quality assurance purposes at institutions of higher education face a triple challenge: to collect valid and reliable survey data (Ansmann & Seyfried 2018), to coordinate the questionnaires with evaluators within the quality assurance departments (Ganseuer & Pistor 2016) and to ensure the practical applicability of the results (Rousseau 2006). Striking a balance between scientific rigor and practical utility concerns the entire survey lifecycle (Survey Research Center 2016). Issues include, but are not limited to the following: • Questionnaire design: Which concepts should be measured? Who should be involved in the questionnaire design process and how? • Data collection: How to ensure data validity despite limited financial and human resources as well as data protection requirements? • Data analysis: Who is the target audience? How to analyze the data to be useful for quality assurance while adhering to principles of good scientific practice? How to strike a balance between data protection requirements and loss of information? • Application: How to increase the acceptance and application of the results by decision-makers? We welcome papers from researchers and evaluation practitioners working at the interface between data collection and application for quality assurance in higher education. Ideally, the papers describe examples of good practice that address the aforementioned issues. Bibliographie Ansmann, M. & Seyfried, M. (2018): Qualitätsmanagement als Treiber einer evidenzbasierten Qualitätsentwicklung von Studium und Lehre? Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 13(1), 233-252. ENQA et al. (2015): Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Brussels, BE. Ganseuer, C. & Pistor, P. (2016). Auf dem Weg zur Qualitätskultur? Interne Qualitätsmanagementsysteme: Internationale Tendenzen und Nationale Entwicklungsfelder. Wissenschaftsmanagement, 5, 37-41. Rousseau, D. (2006): Is there such a thing as evidence based management? Academy of Management Review, 31(2), 256–269. Survey Research Center. (2016). Guidelines for Best Practice in Cross-Cultural Surveys. Ann Arbor, MI. --- Wiebke Breustedt, M.A. Projektleitung UDE-Panel Universität Duisburg-Essen Zentrum für Hochschulqualitätsentwicklung (ZHQE) Keetmanstr. 3-9 Raum SK 314 47058 Duisburg Telefon: 0203 379 7016 Fax: 0203 379 2210 Web: https://panel.uni-due.de <https://panel.uni-due.de/> https://www.uni-due.de/zhqe/team.php#breustedt <https://www.uni-due.de/zhqe/team.php#breustedt>