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This paper aims at verifying the measurement capacity of a tool for teaching assessment at the University of Padova (Italy). The study is part of a project for improving academic educational innovations and the quality of academic teaching: an evaluative research approach thus allows reflection on useful teaching practices to share problems and find common solutions. This paper focuses on the contents and characteristics of statistical validity and reliability of the tool used, in an online survey to measure students' opinions of teaching (first-cycle, second-cycle, and single-cycle degree courses). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to investigate the profile of comparative education in Italy, highlighting those elements that have characterised its development in relation to the cultural and political features of the country. This approach inevitably involves the comparison of Italy's specific particularities to those of other countries in the north and the south of Europe, in order to understand whether there are certain features that may place Italian comparative education within the wider framework of the Mediterranean area. What is involved in making a comparative analysis of the profile of a discipline and, more particularly, of comparative education in Italy, concentrating principally on the geopolitical context of its development? What is it that typifies the feature or features that make Italian comparative education quintessentially Italian? What are the main sources of comparative education in Italy, and what are the disciplines with which it continues to interact today? The article argues that in the wider framework of Western comparative education, Italy's voice, rooted in a plural tradition and open to new developments, is an original and important contribution for thinking critically this field of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Italian Academic sector has been characterized by a phase of strong changes that have had a material impact on how to work with all of the parties involved in the administration and management of universities. In particular, the analysis conducted on the Italian university system has raised many questions, so much so as to generate a series of corrective action merged into a larger project of reforming the University system. It has changed the way of "making university", The need has emerged to review certain aspects of this institution with the objective of improving the product, towards greater competition with foreign interlocutors, much more careful cultural heritage and innovation in the country. In this context, this work represents the main objective analysis of the changes that have affected the Italian university landscape, with special reference to the organizational impact related to the introduction of Accrual Accounting in these Institutions. In order to achieve this goal, we have followed a logical path aimed at highlighting the motivation behind such a move and, at the same time, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of certain operational issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]