A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework to Assess the Sustainable Development of Schools within a University: Application to a Chinese University
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Comprehensive Evaluation Framework
2.1. Model Preparation
2.1.1. Data Collection and Processing
2.1.2. Weight Decision
2.2. Model Building
2.3. Expanding Model Interpretability
2.4. Stability Analysis
3. An Application Example
3.1. Indicator Selection and Refinement
3.2. Comprehensive Evaluation Results & Discussion
4. Concluding Remarks
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Primary Index | Indicators | Abbreviation |
---|---|---|
Faculty Strength | Number of full-time teachers | FTT |
Number of professors | NPR | |
Number of associate professors | NAP | |
Number of nationally and internationally recognized experts | NE | |
Education Outcome | Number of PhD degree graduates | NP |
Number of Master’s degree graduates | NM | |
Number of Bachelor’s (Undergraduate) degree graduates | NU | |
Employment rate of Bachelor’s (Undergraduate) degree graduates | EU | |
Employment rate of Master’s degree graduates | EM | |
Employment rate of PhD degree graduates | EP | |
Number of approved “college student innovation and entrepreneurship training” projects | CTP | |
Number of undergraduate students receiving honors above the provincial level | UHP | |
Number of graduate students receiving academic innovation awards | GAA | |
Discipline Development | Number of “double first-class” disciplines and nationally designated key disciplines | DD |
Number of provincially designated key disciplines | DP | |
Number of “national excellence” courses and “first-class” undergraduate courses | EFU | |
Number of teaching and research equipment and instruments | TRI | |
Talent Attraction | Number of “young talent” from the country and abroad | YTE |
Number of postdoctoral fellows | POS | |
Achievement in Research | Number of papers included in the top three citation index systems | PTS |
Number of published works | PW | |
Number of outstanding achievement awards received from the Ministry of Education, the province, or the city | OAA | |
Number of projects approved by the National Social Science Foundation or the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Division of the Ministry of Education | PNS | |
Number of nationally or provincially commissioned research centers and think tanks | RC | |
Sum of research funds | SRF | |
Number of academic journals sponsored | AJS | |
Academic Exchange | Number of academic conferences and lectures | ACL |
Number of long-term foreign experts employed | FEE |
Indicator | Weight |
---|---|
FTT | 0.1118 |
NE | 0.0373 |
EU | 0.0373 |
EM | 0.0373 |
EP | 0.0373 |
GAA | 0.0745 |
DD | 0.1118 |
EFU | 0.1491 |
TRI | 0.1118 |
POS | 0.0123 |
PW | 0.0745 |
RC | 0.0373 |
SRF | 0.1491 |
FEE | 0.0186 |
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Li, H.; Chen, Z. A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework to Assess the Sustainable Development of Schools within a University: Application to a Chinese University. Sustainability 2022, 14, 10671. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710671
Li H, Chen Z. A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework to Assess the Sustainable Development of Schools within a University: Application to a Chinese University. Sustainability. 2022; 14(17):10671. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710671
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Hong, and Zilin Chen. 2022. "A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework to Assess the Sustainable Development of Schools within a University: Application to a Chinese University" Sustainability 14, no. 17: 10671. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710671