Evaluation of Teaching Staff and Courses, by Students of the State University of Physical Education and Sport, as a Condition for Ensuring Internal Quality Management

Abstract

The university is the main generator of the ”cores” of cultural diffusion. Higher education forms experts who will lead, in the near future, our country's society and economy to the integration into the European Union. In this context, the quality of university performance acquires particular importance. Quality assurance, at the institutional level, is the most important dimension of the quality systems. The introduction of institutional structures for quality assurance contributes to the training of students regarding the ways of organization, relationships with teachers and university, regarding the means of expressing of their requirements and expectations. Their involvement in the real life of the university and the development among the youth of a new institutional culture represent the goals of quality management system. Assessment of student satisfaction regarding the teaching staff and courses held at the State University of Physical Education and Sport is a strategic decision on providing quality management. This activity aims to involve students in the process of quality assurance, awarding them the function of active partners in the process of increasing academic achievement. The results of such studies contribute to the development of proposals and recommendations that may become strategic objectives and priority actions in order to develop, for the future, the university activity.