The measurement of several concepts used in social sciences generates an ordinal
variable, which is characterized by rawness of the output values and presents some much …

Assessing the quality of life (QoL) at different levels (neighbourhood, city or country) requires
the definition of intermediate objectives whose achievement can be observed and measured …

Multi item questionnaires are widely used to collect students' evaluation of teaching at
university. This article makes an attempt to analyse students' evaluation on a broad …

This article advances a proposal for building up adjusted composite indicators of the quality
of university courses from students' assessments. The flexible framework of Generalized …

This article presents a testing procedure for comparing ordinal data distributions which helps
the interpretation of results in presence of complex surveys involving the evaluation of …

In this paper we use the Rasch model (RM) as a tool to measure the perceived quality of
student services at the Reception Office of an Italian university faculty. This paper has both a …

In the complex frame of the EU agriculture politics, a particular relevant aspect is given by
the new regulation on durum wheat production and diffusion incentives. These subsidies are …

In complex surveys aimed at measuring the satisfaction level of final users of a given product
or service, several items are generally investigated. Also, respondents often belong to …

Composite indicators for ranking geographical areas are more and more popular in a variety
of economic and policy domains such as competitiveness, innovation, development and …

The diffusion of a culture of evaluation in the Italian Universities has changed the logic and
the development of several activities/procedures. As a consequence, Universities perform …