Developing a critical success factor approach to holistic institutional evaluation for polytechnics in the states of Cujarat and Madhya Pradesh, India, 1977-1984
Developing a critical success factor approach to holistic institutional evaluation for polytechnics in the states of Cujarat and Madhya Pradesh, India, 1977-1984
The context of this thesis is the technical education system in the Indian States of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh between 1976 and 1984. The research accounts for the development, field testing and adoption of a new method of Polytechnic evaluation. This methodology was derived from the belief that the level of institutional performance was dependent upon nine Critical Success Factors. The research also describes how pressures for change affected the implementation of that evaluative system. This development and adoption process occurred within an international programme of technical education assistance in which the researcher was a consultant. The evaluative system was piloted in 1977 and adopted in one State in 1978.The format of the thesis is that of a longitudinal case study supported by research based evidence of a quantitative and qualitative nature. The research methodology used is diachronic, in which contingency theory informs the analysis of events. The participant role of the researcher is acknowledged. The primary sources of data are international consultancy reports, working papers generated during the development process, reports from Polytechnic evaluations, questionnaire responses and taped interviews. Secondary sources are personal contacts with international academics and supportng literature.Since 1978 this evaluative methodology has demonstrated a capacity to meet expectations attributed to it by those who developed, used and sponsored the form of holistic Polytechnic evaluation now known in Gujarat as `the CSF system'. Evidence shows that the assumptions upon the notion of a Critical Success Factor approach to institutional evaluation were based have validity.(D76425)
University of Southampton
1987
Trafford, Vernon Nelson
(1987)
Developing a critical success factor approach to holistic institutional evaluation for polytechnics in the states of Cujarat and Madhya Pradesh, India, 1977-1984.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The context of this thesis is the technical education system in the Indian States of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh between 1976 and 1984. The research accounts for the development, field testing and adoption of a new method of Polytechnic evaluation. This methodology was derived from the belief that the level of institutional performance was dependent upon nine Critical Success Factors. The research also describes how pressures for change affected the implementation of that evaluative system. This development and adoption process occurred within an international programme of technical education assistance in which the researcher was a consultant. The evaluative system was piloted in 1977 and adopted in one State in 1978.The format of the thesis is that of a longitudinal case study supported by research based evidence of a quantitative and qualitative nature. The research methodology used is diachronic, in which contingency theory informs the analysis of events. The participant role of the researcher is acknowledged. The primary sources of data are international consultancy reports, working papers generated during the development process, reports from Polytechnic evaluations, questionnaire responses and taped interviews. Secondary sources are personal contacts with international academics and supportng literature.Since 1978 this evaluative methodology has demonstrated a capacity to meet expectations attributed to it by those who developed, used and sponsored the form of holistic Polytechnic evaluation now known in Gujarat as `the CSF system'. Evidence shows that the assumptions upon the notion of a Critical Success Factor approach to institutional evaluation were based have validity.(D76425)
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