University Quality: Secondary School Students and their Attitudes and Beliefs in Relation to Four Universities in the Chilean Fifth Region.
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https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n31.164Keywords:
attitudes, university quality, cognitive relations, institutional prestigeAbstract
This investigation was aimed to analyze the most important attitudes and cognitive associations a target group recognizes respect to the quality of four universities at the Fifth Region of Chile. To that end, it was necessary to identify the main attributes high school students connect to universities' quality and establish their attitudes about the selected universities and those attributes. The study found a positive response to institutional prestige, high quality professors and good labor future opportunities and a negative one to strikes and mobilizations since they always affect the desirable conditions associated with universities' quality. All these beliefs are ordered in one consistent hierarchy. Unexpected dimensions such as "good environment within the university" and "quality of life" seem to be strongly considered as constitutive attributes of quality by future university students.
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