Student satisfaction with honours programme in Azerbaijan

ABSTRACT

In 2014, the Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic launched an honours programme in several universities to introduce the advanced curriculum and interactive teaching methodology. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the success of the programme via the satisfaction level of the honours students with the delivery of the promised purposes of this programme, such as curriculum, teaching methodology and the programme administration in general. Preliminary results show that honours students are satisfied with each of those variables. Moreover, to understand whether the satisfaction of the students is purely due to the structure of the honours programmes, the satisfaction level of honours students was compared with that of non-honours students from the corresponding degree programmes. The results showed that honours students are more satisfied than the non-honours students in all the above-mentioned criteria.

KEYWORDS:

• Azerbaijan
• student satisfaction
• honours programme
• t-test
• F-test
• higher education

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Institute of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).