Assessing the Quality of University Teaching in Croatia

This paper examines the extent to which university teaching is respected in Croatia higher education. The results of the assessment, which is based on our analyses of 15 criteria, show that teachers and students (203 teachers and 469 students) differ substantially in their view of quality as applied to an 'ideal' form of teaching and a 'real' form, i.e. what actually happen at university. The tests (Wilcoxon matched pairs test and Mann-Whitney U -test) show that teachers assess the quality of actual teaching at university higher than students, and that the differences between teachers and students, regarding some of the criteria, could be called radical (for example, concerns about the fairness of teachers' assessment and their readiness to help).