International Comparison of Higher Education Representatives’ and Students’ Attitudes Towards Feedback Learning

Abstract

The study was conceptualized as a pilot to establish a methodology for comprehensive research on the impact of the proposed learning design on learning outcomes. We compared how representatives of higher education institutions and master’s students in engineering studies perceive the lack of feedback in learning aspects by monitoring the progress of learning in the Czech Republic, as well as in Belgium, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, and Poland. While there are many findings on the learning process documented in the literature, studies of a perceptual nature that identify differences in the attitudes of students and higher education representatives are scarcely available. To analyze differences, we employed the Mann-Whitney U test to compare Czech students with International Business Week (IBW) program studying at Czech higher education institutions. as well as to compare students and higher education institutions within and outside the Czech Republic. Czech students perceive fewer absences of these aspects in their education. From the perspective of higher education institutions, partner schools from other countries perceive the absence of the examined aspects in teaching less than higher education institutions in the Czech Republic. The study has theoretical implications for the scientific field, as it has lays the conceptual basis for further research. Furthermore, it has practical implications for the way higher education teaching is conducted.