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Evaluating Students’ Quality of Academic Life

Using Data in a Structural Model Approach

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Using Data to Improve Higher Education

Part of the book series: Global Perspectives On Higher Education ((GPHE))

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In a context of globalization and international competition in higher education, higher education institutions (HEI) increasingly understand that higher education can be considered as a business-like service industry, consequently needing better understanding of how their students perceive the services provided and how they can compete in attracting and holding on to more students (Douglas & Douglas, 2006).

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  1. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

    Eugénia Pedro

  2. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

    Helena Alves

  3. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

    João Leitão

  4. CEG-IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal

    João Leitão

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  1. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Maria Eliophotou Menon

  2. Tufts University, Medford, USA

    Dawn Geronimo Terkla

  3. Middlesex University London, UK

    Paul Gibbs

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Pedro, E., Alves, H., Leitão, J. (2014). Evaluating Students’ Quality of Academic Life. In: Menon, M.E., Terkla, D.G., Gibbs, P. (eds) Using Data to Improve Higher Education. Global Perspectives On Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-794-0_7

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