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This work addresses the European survey conducted with the aim of learning from the most recent developments in the Higher Education (HE) area concerning the Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS) field. This regards, in particular: (i) the enrolment; (ii) the reduction in first year students’ failure rates; (iii) the perceived value of OR/MS courses; (iv) the OR/MS teaching practices; and (v) the transition onto the Labour Market. A statistical analysis is performed to understand if there is a relation of the respondents’ perceptions (“Positive” and “Negative”) and the types of OR/MS modules that were lectured at their institutions (type-A, bachelor/master programmes; type-B, separate majors/minors, and type-C, courses). The results analysis of independence tests are presented; most of the queries concerning the restructuring procedures are weakly related with the lecturing modules and the same occurs with half of the queries regarding the first year students; the opposite occurs with the labour market responses, as all of them are independent of the lecturing modules; and, both for the students enrolment and the OR/MS teaching practices, although weakly one-third of the responses are related with the lectured modules. Finally, further developments within the evidence-based approach are discussed too.
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OR/MS Education Enrolment Retention Restructuration Teaching Practices Transition into Labour Market
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Teixeira, Ana Paula; João Luís de Miranda and Margarida Vaz Pato .(2022). “The European survey on OR/MS Education : statistical analysis addressing the lecturing modules”, in New Perspectives in Operations Research and Management Science - Essays in Honor of Fusun Ulengin: Y. Topcu (Eds.)... [et al.] chapter 12: pp. 293-315. 2022