The elaboration of an inventory of evaluation of the quality of usage of an academic establishment

• Author: D. Bouzid/L. Rioux
• Position: Université Paris 13-IUT de Saint Denis/Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France
• Pages: 9-18

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 9 (58) No. 1 - 2016

THE ELABORATION OF AN INVENTORY

OF EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF

USAGE OF AN ACADEMIC

ESTABLISHMENT

D. BOUZID1 L. RIOUX

2

Abstract: The Social Responsibility of the University (SRU) was born out of

a wish of the European Higher-Education Area (EHEA) to build an

European space of education. From this perspective, the universities become

straightforward urban actors integrated in the urban area where they are

implemented. Our research aims to elaborate an inventory of the quality of

usage of an academic establishment. To this end, five studies were conducted

in four French universities in order to design a tool composed of 97 items in

which the intra and inter-judge reliability is completely satisfactory. Even

though intercultural validation analyses prove to be necessary, this

evaluation inventory of the quality of usage of an academic establishment

seems to be adaptable at European level.

Key words: quality of usage; university; construction of a tool.

1. Introduction

Since the Middle Ages, the universities have known stages of autonomy intermingled

with stages of coming close and being integrated in the local structures (Nóvoa & Lawn,

2002), according to the rhythm of national and European reforms. Thus, in England, the

liberal reform of the last 20 years has encouraged the universities to search for financial

support in the economic and societal world, at the same time protecting themselves from

the influence of local collectivities (Grossetti & Losego, 2003).

The Social Responsibility of Universities (SRU) was born as a result of an initiative of

the European Higher-Education Area (EHEA), which was already present in the

ministerial statements of London (2007) and Louvain (2009). It is based on missions

going from academic excellence to the equality of chances, associated with an increasing

will to trade higher education (Sultana, 2011) and with the construction of an European

Space of Education (Nóvoa & Lawn, 2002).

Although the idea that the mission of universities entails dimensions which go beyond

the promotion of knowledge and research corresponds to the classic models of European

university (Zgaga, 2009), these preoccupations have only recently been associated with

the SRU (for example (Larrán, López, & Márquez, 2011).

1 Université Paris 13-IUT de Saint Denis, dalel.bouzid@univ-paris13.fr.

2 Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. lrioux@u-paris10.fr.