During February 2020, representatives of ELibUkr and NaUKMA discussed the methodological component of the Quality assurance for education Portal, which was attended by representatives of several universities and National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine).

In particular, the importance of ensuring the confidentiality and anonymity of respondents (students) in such surveys, the impossibility of manipulating the results both at the level of deformation of the numbers or in the act of completion of questionnaires, as well as at the level of interpretation and further results usage. It is important to ensure a high level of student participation ("response rate"), as well as the involvement and interest of teachers and administration of higher education institutions in the constructive use of the results to improve the quality of teaching and educational programs.

Several main issues commonly relate to organizing such surveys:

• Ensuring the confidentiality and anonymity of respondents (students),
• Prevention of results manipulation - both at the level of deformation of the numbers or in the act of completion of questionnaires, as well as at the level of interpretation and further results usage,
• Ensuring a high level of student participation ("Response Rate") and, e.g. the percentage of responses to the total number of students who had taken the discipline).
• Involvement and interest of teachers and administration of the Higher Education Institutions in the constructive use of the results to improve the quality of teaching and educational programs.

Only consistent problem solving of these issues allows us to obtain results that will be reliable, valid, consistent, and representative, and therefore will allow concluding on the quality of teaching disciplines, to assess existing trends.

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