Analysis of the scientific production and measurement scales of the university internationalization performance
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2022.e86428Keywords:
University internationalization, University's internationalization performance, Scientific production, Measurement instrumentsAbstract
University internationalization is a multidimensional phenomenon; therefore, we need different quantitative and qualitative measures to measure it. This study develops an analysis of publications on the construct university internationalization performance. The aim is to know and analyze the scientific production and measurement scales of the performance of the internationalization of universities. For this purpose, we performed searches in the SciELO, Scopus, Web of Science databases, and Google Scholar without temporal delimitation. We analyzed seven papers that indicated adherence to the construct and found that the most common instruments to measure the internationalization performance construct of universities are indexes, followed by frameworks. We identify two attempts to build scales using formative indexes – Internationalization Index of Higher Education in Turkey and Community College Internationalization Index. However, we do not identify a consolidated scale for measuring the internationalization performance of universities in the literature of the area.
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